The refinement of the automated TL dating procedure and perspectives for the archaeological application of the method as demonstrated by the results from sites of known age

Abstract

The use of an automated reader for thermoluminescence dating at Ris0 has already been described at last year's Symposium and at the Specialist TL Seminar in Oxford in July 1978. Further refinements to the dating method are described here including the necessity for a separate beta source calibration for each individual sample and the use of a scintillation counter as a new method of determining the on-site background gamma dose. The results of a TL dating programme on a number of well -dated Danish archaeological excavation sites are then presented and the TL ages are compared, where possible, to the known ages obtained from other dating methods. The perspectives for the further archaeological application of the method are then discussed.The use of an automated reader for thermoluminescence dating at Ris0 has already been described at last year's Symposium and at the Specialist TL Seminar in Oxford in July 1978. Further refinements to the dating method are described here including the necessity for a separate beta source calibration for each individual sample and the use of a scintillation counter as a new method of determining the on-site background gamma dose. The results of a TL dating programme on a number of well -dated Danish archaeological excavation sites are then presented and the TL ages are compared, where possible, to the known ages obtained from other dating methods. The perspectives for the further archaeological application of the method are then discussed.Bell W.T., Mejdahl V., Winther-Nielsen M. The refinement of the automated TL dating procedure and perspectives for the archaeological application of the method as demonstrated by the results from sites of known age. In: Revue d'Archéométrie, n°4, 1980. pp. 127-137