Measurements with a Freiberg Instruments’ lexsygsmart TL/OSL reader build the backbone of a study which found the oldest archaeological site of the Central Aegean.
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.
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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