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Radiocarbon determinations, luminescence dating and Australian archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jim Allen
Jim Allen*
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Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia
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The September 1993 editorial (ANTIQUITY 65: 44–5) made comment on recent Australian dates, by luminescence techniques, significantly older than radiocarbon determinations from elsewhere in Australia and New Guinea, which formed a single continent in the late Pleistocene. (There are hints also from the Americas of a discrepancy between dates by the two methods.) The period involved, c. 30-60,000 years ago, is crucial also in the Old World mainland, where the beginning of the European Upper Palaeolithic is usually set at c. 35,000 years ago by radiocarbon determinations.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 259 , June 1994 , pp. 339 - 343
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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