OPEN SYSTEM MODELING FOR U-SERIES AND ESR DATING OF TEETH

The study of the constituents of teeth, dentine and enamel, by a combination of ESR and U-series techniques offer unique constraint on the history of uranium migration into these materials. Our results imply that it is inappropriate to assume a simplified U-uptake model for neither the components of a single tooth nor for the faunal remains of a given site. However, the combination of both methods may provide a new technique for establishing reliable chronologies for archaeological/Quaternary sites of up to several hundred thousand years.