Luminescence Dating of Archaeological Materials

Liritzis, Ioannis; Singhvi, A. K.; Wagner, Günther A.; Kadereit, Annette; Zacharias, N.; Li, Sheng‐Hua

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00170-8_4

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“…Modelling the behaviour of the same sample by exposing it to increasing doses of a laboratory source of radiation enables the calculation of equivalent dose (ED) accumulated in the target material. A TL date is achieved by comparing ED with calculated DR. TL dating has been successfully applied to various types of archaeological material, such as pottery, bricks, porcelains and other earthen materials that have been heated over 500°C during production (see Liritzis et al, 2013, and references therein).…”

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Crust occurrence on a Galatian rock‐cut dwelling in central Anatolia, Turkey

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Mahkemağcin Underground City (MUC) is a four-floored rock-cut dwelling complex carved into ignimbrite tuffs of the Early-Middle Miocene age in central Anatolia. The whole interior of the complex is covered by a 1-5 cm thick alteration crust that is not detected in any cave or outcrop in the region. This crust is investigated using microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence analyses, and the results are discussed from the geomechanical point of view. The colour of the outer surface of the crust is black, which turns red inside and grades into pale yellow above the white parent rock. The compaction and solidity of the crust are relatively high, as much as double that of the parent rock. The crust seems to have prevented and/or significantly decreased the erosion of the surfaces of the room walls. Mineralogical and chemical analyses together with experimental studies on selected samples suggest that such a crust could have formed because of thermal alteration at high temperatures ca. 600-950°C. On examination of the heated samples, the main geochemical changes within heated rocks were (i) an increase in silica concentration by ca. 2%-3% and (ii) the disappearance of zeolites and sericites.Thermoluminescence dating of the crust revealed thermal resetting of quartz crystals within the ignimbrite tuff at 243 ± 260 CE. All the analytical methods applied to the site indicate that the crust was obtained intentionally, possibly by burning woods indoors, aiming to harden the wall surfaces, mainly by Galatian people of the early Medieval time.

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Crust occurrence on a Galatian rock‐cut dwelling in central Anatolia, Turkey

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“…Currently, numerical dating using luminescence methods is widely applied in geosciences and archaeology in establishing the ages of sediments and archaeological artefacts (Liritzis et al, 2013). There are many luminescence laboratories in the world, which produce thousands of results every year.…”

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Luminescence Dating Procedures at the Gliwice Luminescence Dating Laboratory

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The Gliwice Luminescence Laboratory (GLL) is a part of the Institute of Physics – Centre for Science and Education at the Silesian University of Technology, which has gradually evolved since the 1980s. To date, nearly 3500 samples have been dated using luminescence from materials such as ceramics, bricks, and sediments from archaeological and geological sites. Currently, the laboratory is equipped with four luminescence readers and three gamma spectrometers, allowing luminescence dating of approximately 300 samples annually for the needs of research projects. This article focuses on the laboratory procedures used in GLL to obtain luminescence ages. Recent improvements of the GLL's facilities and new equipment, as well as the performance spanning the Laboratory's 30 years of activity, are discussed in terms of obtained results and the involvement in national and international projects.

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