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Figure 1 from Carter et al. (2019) shows the alternative route of human movement into Europe on a southern Aegean land bridge as early as 200,000 years ago, which is based on luminescence dating results performed with a lexsygsmart TL/OSL reader.

Feldspar signal from a postIrIr290 protocol as was used to date sediment from the Palaeolithic site.

Past human movement into Europe dated with a lexsygsmart TL/OSL reader

postIrIr290 measurements of feldspar were used to determine the age of a Palaeolithic site on the Greek island of Naxos to be up to 200,000 years old. Based on these results a new route for the colonization of Europe by early humans is hypothesized.

Reference:
Tristan Carter, Daniel A. Contreras, Justin Holcomb, Danica D. Mihailovic, Panagiotis Karkanas, Guillaume Guérin, Ninon Taffin, Dimitris Athanasoulis, Christelle Lahaye (2019)
Earliest occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for hominin and Homo sapiens’ behavior and dispersals

New method developed with a lexsyg research to estimate the dose and time elapsed since a radiation accident

A new method was developed with Freiberg Instruments' lexsyg research luminescence reader for emergency dosimetry. The use of blue stimulated OSL with the dosimetric material Mg2SiO4:Tb (MSO) does not only allow the retrospective measurement of the…

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