DIRECT DATING OF A QAFZEH PROTO-CRO-MAGNON SKULL BY NON DESTRUCTIVE GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETRY

Authors
YOKOYAMA Y FALGUERES C DELUMLEY MA
Citation
Y. Yokoyama et al., DIRECT DATING OF A QAFZEH PROTO-CRO-MAGNON SKULL BY NON DESTRUCTIVE GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETRY, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes, 324(9), 1997, pp. 773-779
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes → ACNP
ISSN journal
12518050
Volume
324
Issue
9
Year of publication
1997
Pages
773 - 779
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8050(1997)324:9<773:DDOAQP>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
One of the Qafzeh human skulls, Qafzeh 6, excavated in 1934 by Neuvill e and Stekelis and conserved at the Institut de Paleontologie Humaine in Paris was dated by non-destructive gamma-ray spectrometry. A long-t erm measurement resulted in a uranium-thorium age of 80 +/- 24 kyr and a uranium-protactinium age of 94 +/- 10 kar. These ages, in agreement with the TL age of burnt flints of the same site, 92 +/- 5 kar, confi rm the great antiquity of the Proto-Cro-Magnons of the Near East, and contribute to the establishment of modern Man's chronology.