New optical and radiocarbon dates from Ngarrabullgan Cave, a Pleistocene archaeological site in Australia: implications for the comparability of time clocks and for the human colonization of Australia

• Autores: Bruno David, Richard Roberts, Claudio Tuniz, Rhys Jones, John Head
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 71, Nº 271, 1997, págs. 183-188
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The human settlement of Australia falls into that period where dating is hard because it is near or beyond the reliable limit of radiocarbon study; instead a range of luminescence methods are being turned to (such as thermoluminescence at Jinmium: December 1996 ANTIQUITY). Ngarrabullgan Cave, a rock-shelter in Queensland, now offers a good suite of radiocarbon determinations which match well a pair of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dates — encouraging sign that OSL determinations can be relied on.