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Uranium-Series Dating of Lacustrine Limestones from Pan Deposits With Final Acheulian Assemblage at Rooidam, Kimberley District, South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

B. J. Szabo  and
K. W. Butzer
B. J. Szabo
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225 USA
K. W. Butzer
Affiliation:
The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 USA
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Abstract

Lacustrine limestone samples from sedimentary pan deposits at Rooidam, near Kimberley, South Africa, that contain late Acheulian (Fauresmith) artifacts have been dated by 230Th/234U and 231Pa/235U methods. Results indicate a minimum age of about 200,000 yr B.P. for the terminal Acheulian in the interior of South Africa.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , March 1979 , pp. 257 - 260
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University of Washington

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