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Fission‐track dating in paleoanthropology
Author(s) -
Wagner Günther A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
evolutionary anthropology: issues, news, and reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1520-6505
pISSN - 1060-1538
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6505(1996)5:5<165::aid-evan5>3.0.co;2-e
Subject(s) - paleoanthropology , fission track dating , hominidae , evolutionary biology , track (disk drive) , history , archaeology , paleontology , biology , biological evolution , computer science , genetics , zircon , operating system
During the last 30 years, fission‐track dating has become a versatile geochronological tool. 1 Fission‐tracks, discovered in the early 1960s, 2 were subsequently used to determine the age of minerals and glasses. 3 Although low track densities can make fission‐track dating tedious and time‐consuming, the technique can provide important data for material in time ranges as young as the last few million years. In anthropological studies, fission‐track dating is most useful for dating burned artifacts and volcanic ashes intercalated with hominid‐bearing layers.