Archaeometry, Australasian studies 1988
By: edited by John R. Prescott
Publisher: Dept. of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Adelaide
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Archaeometry; Congresses
Notes: Proceedings of the 3rd Australian Archaeometry Conference, held at the University of Adelaide, Aug. 28-Sept. 1, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From skulls to shrouds / Edward T. Hall; title: Developments in radiocarbon dating / Henry A. Polach; title: Paleomagnetism and high-resolution dating of ceramic kilns in Thailand / Mike Barbetti and Don Hein; title: A review of amino acid racemisation dating and its application to Australian Quarternary marine mollusca / C.V. Murray-Wallace and R.W.L. Kimber; title: Amino acid racemisation dating of soils and sediments / R.W.L. Kimber and C.V. Griffin; title: Uranium-Thorium series dating of apoleothems / T.F. Hamilton and J.D. Smith; title: Uranium uptake in bones / R.R. Robinson; title: Uranium disequilibrium in animal bones from a flooded cave /J.T. Hutton and Cate Newton; title: Dating pedogenic iron concentrations / S. Short , R.W. Young and D.M. Price; title: Electron spin resonance (ESR) analysis / A. Goede; title: New developments in luminescence dating techniques / G.B. Robertson; title: Thermoluminescence ages for an unusual shell deposit at Point Richtie, Warrnambool, Australia / John R. Prescott and John E. Sherwood; title: Sedimentary dating by the method of thermoluminescence, the Wollongong experience / David M. Price, Gerald C. nanson and Robert W. Young; title: Thermoluminescence dating of late Quarternary environmental change in Australia / Gerald C. Nanson, David M. Price and Robert W. Young; title: Natural thermoluminescence of scapolite / R.K. Gartia and Aditi Datta; title: Superlinearity in the dose dependence of the 110 C TL peak in quartz / R. Chen, S.W.S. McKeever and X.H. Yang; title: The use of small personal radiation dosemeters to measure environmental radiation backgrounds as they apply to TL-dating / A.J. Mortlock and F.M. Skinsnes-Scollard; title: Estimation of alpha radiation dose in fine mineral grains used in archaeometry / Bhaskar Mukherjee; title: Fluorine diffusion profiles in archaeological bones / Graeme Coote and John Dennison; title: Fluorine diffusion in archaeological human teeth / Graeme Coot and Theya Molleson; title: Oxygen isotope analysis/ Michael C.S. Godfrey; title: Disequilibrium studies / J.T. Hutton; title: Melanesian Obsidian / J.R. Bird; title: Isla de Pascua obsidian / J.R. Bird; title: Metallography of copper and its alloys recovered from nineteenth century shipwrecks / Ian Donald MacLeod and Maria Pitrun; title: The Lucas Heights external beam PIXE facility / D.B. Garton and E. Clayton; title: Study of the pigments of prehistoric rock art in the south east o Piaui - Brazil / Maria Conceicao Soares Meneses Lage; title: In-situ pigment analysis / J.R. Bird; title: Differentiation of startch grains for archaeometry / Su Higgins; title: Stratigraphy and chronology of the Toca do Boquerao do Sitio da Pedra Furada / G. Delibrias, N. Guidon and F. Parenti; title: The age of Solo man and Java man / G. -J. Barstra; title: Biological and cultural development of Pleistocene people in an old world southern continent / H.J. Deacon, J.C. Vogel and S. Talma; title: Current perspectives on the antiquity of Man in Australia / Graeme Pretty; title: Fluorine diffusion profiles in arhcaological bones / Graeme Coote and John Dennison.