Abstract

Several methods are available to the anthropologist/archaeologist for dating of bone material, including 14 C, amino acid racemisation, thermoluminescence (TL), and more recently electron spin resonance (ESR). Of these, ESR has the potential of being the most suitable method for dating Holocene and Pleistocene bone material. When the other methods are applied to bone, difficulties are encountered which place limitations on their application. Many of these difficulties and limitations are not encountered in the ESR method.

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