U-TH BURIAL DATING OF OSTRICH EGGSHELLS: A NOVEL APPROACH TO DATING AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SEQUENCES BEYOND THE 14C LIMIT
NIESPOLO, Elizabeth1, SHARP, Warren2, FYLSTRA, Nicholas2, TRYON, Christian A.3, TRIPATHY-LANG, Alka4, WEISZ, David G.5, BLEGEN, Nick6, FAITH, J. Tyler7, HENSHILWOOD, Christopher S.8, LEWIS, Jason9, MACKAY, Alex10, STEELE, Teresa11, VAN NIEKERK, Karen12 and WOLDEGABRIEL, Giday13, (1)Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Rd., Berkeley, CA 94709; Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, 307 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-4767, (2)Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Rd., Berkeley, CA 94709, (3)Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, (4)Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, (5)Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Livermore, CA 94550, (6)Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, (7)Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, (8)Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Department of Archaeology, University of Bergen, Bergen, 5020, Norway, (9)Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, (10)Centre for Archaeological Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2522, Australia, (11)Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, (12)Department of Archaeology, University of Bergen, Bergen, 5020, Norway, (13)Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87544, eniespolo@berkeley.edu