ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING FOR THE AGE OF PEKING- MAN, LOC.1, ZHOUKOUDIAN, BEIJING

Huang Peihua，

Jin Sizhao，

Liang Youren，

Lu Zhongjia，

Zheng Lizhen，

Yuan Zhenxin，

Cai Bingxi，

Fang Zhaomeng

Nuclear Science and Techniques

Vol.1, No.3

pp.169-173

Published in print 01 Aug 1990

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In this paper, we used ESR dating method to measure the accumulative dose of the fossil teeth samples, which are contemporaneous with the Peking- Man. The internal annual dose rate of samples are got by neutron activation analysis and the environmental annual dose rate by highly sensitive TL dosimeters to be embedded in cave deposits in the site. The results of ESR dating are corresponded with the dating results obtained by U- series, FT, TL and paleomagnetic stratigraphical methods on the 3rd, 4th, 7th and 10th layers. Calculation of using different models, the close- equilibrium model, the linear uranium accumulation model and radon loss- linear uranium accumulation model, for travertine, deer teeth and rhinoceros tooth, we obtained the age of the First Peking- Man in the 11th layer is 578 ka and gave ages of other layers, from the 1st to the 13th layer in Peking- Man site.

ESR datingPeking- Man's age

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