Facilities - Luminescence Dating Laboratory - Projects

Some of our dating projects are listed here:

Lake Mungo and the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area (Australia)
Human-environment interactions in the semi-arid Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area.

Methods to be applied:
OSL, AAR, radiocarbon

Collaboration with:
N. Stern (Archaeology Program, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)
C. Murray-Wallace (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia)

Dobrogea, southeastern Romania (Romania)
Lower Danube survey for Palaeolithic sites.
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Methods to be applied:
OSL/IRSL, environmental magnetism

Collaboration with:
R. Iovita (Forschungsbereich Altsteinzeit des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, Germany)
A. Dobos (Institute of Archaeology, Bucharest, Romania)
U. Hambach (Geographisches Institut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany)

Ain Guettar & the Meknassy Basin (Tunisia)
Dating the 'Aterian' and 'Mousterian' occupation of the Meknassy basin.

Methods to be applied:
TL & OSL

Collaboration with:
N. Aouadi-Abdeljaouad (Institut National du Patrimoine de Tunisie, Section de Préhistoire, Tunis, Tunisia)

Mezmaiskaya, Matuzka & Hadjah-2
Dating Middle to Early Upper Palaeolithic stratigraphies in the Caucasus.

Methods to be applied:
TL & OSL

Collaboration with:
L. Golovanova & V. Doronichev (Laboratory of Prehistory, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)

Irhoud (Morocco)
Dating the hominid site.

Method to be applied:
TL

Collaboration with:
A. Ben-Ncer, Institut National des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine (I.N.S.A.P.), Morocco
J.P. Raynal (Institute de Préhistoire et de Géologie du Quaternaire (IPGQ), Université Bordeaux I, France)

Rhafas, Taforalt & Dar es Soltan I (Morocco)
Dating the Middle Palaeolithic stratigraphies

Method to be applied:
TL

Collaboration with:
J. Bouzouggar (Institut National des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine (I.N.S.A.P.), Morocco)

Schöningen (Germany)
Dating the oldest javelins.

Methods to be applied:
TL and ESR

Collaboration with:
H. Thieme, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, Hannover, Germany
J. Rink & H. Schwarz, Geology Dept, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Aïn Hummal (Syria)
Multi chronometric dating of the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic in the Near East.

Methods to be applied:
TL, OSL, ESR and U-series

Collaboration with:
J.-M. LeTensorer, Prehistory Dept., University of Bale, Switzerland
S. Muhesen (Ministry for Antiquities, Damascus, Syria)

Wadi Mashkuna (Syria)
Chronometric dating of a new Middle Palaeolithic sequence.

Method to be applied:
TL

Collaboration with:
N. Conard (Prehistory Department, University Tübingen, Germany)
M. Masri (Ministry for Antiquities, Damascus, Syria