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| Title |
Dating of fossil human teeth and shells from Toca do Enoque site at Serra das Confusões National Park, Brazil
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| Published in |
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, June 2016
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| DOI | 10.1590/0001-3765201620150083 |
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| Authors |
Angela Kinoshita, Henry L Sullasi, Viviane K Asfora, Renata L Azevedo, Pedro Guzzo, Niede Guidon, Ana Maria G Figueiredo, Helen Khoury, Anne-Marie Pessis, Oswaldo Baffa |
| Abstract |
This work reports the dating of a fossil human tooth and shell found at the archaeological site Toca do Enoque located in Serra das Confusões National Park (Piauí, Brazil). Many prehistoric paintings have been found at this site. An archaeological excavation unearthed three sepulchers with human skeletons and some shells. Two Brazilian laboratories, in Ribeirão Preto (USP) and Recife (UFPE), independently performed Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) measurements to date the tooth and the shell and obtain the equivalent dose received by each sample. The laboratories determined similar ages for the tooth and the shell (~4.8 kyBP). The results agreed with C-14 dating of the shell and other samples (charcoal) collected in the same sepulcher. Therefore, this work provides a valid inter-comparison of results by two independent ESR-dating laboratories and between two dating methods; i.e., C-14 and ESR, showing the validity of ESR dating for this range of ages. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 21 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 10% |
| Unknown | 19 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Professor | 4 | 19% |
| Researcher | 4 | 19% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 10% |
| Student > Master | 2 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 3 | 14% |
| Unknown | 5 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 3 | 14% |
| Materials Science | 2 | 10% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 2 | 10% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 10% |
| Psychology | 1 | 5% |
| Other | 5 | 24% |
| Unknown | 6 | 29% |