Abstract Trapped charge dating method using electron spin resonance (ESR) of quartz is progressively used for sediment dating. ESR signals can be accurate age estimation only when these are zeroed by sunlight exposure before the layer creation or one knows their residual level (the part signal that not bleached). It well known related to Al-hole centres in has a significant signal. From point v...

Luminescence occurs in almost all the materials absorbing photon energy and is a phenomenon of light emitting process. There are various types of luminescence, e.g. fluorescence, phosphorescence, delayed luminescence, chemiluminescence and thermoluminescence. In these cases, light is emitted when a photoor chomo-excited molecules is deexcited to its ground state. During this deexcitation proces...

Ascertaining the timing of the peopling of Europe, after the first out-of-Africa demographic expansion at the end of the Pliocene, is of great interest to paleoanthropologists. One of the earliest direct evidences for fossil hominins in western Europe comes from an infilled karstic cave site called Gran Dolina at Atapuerca, in a stratum approximately 1.5m below the Brunhes-Matuyama (B-M) geomag...

Loess in Northern Italy has been usually considered deposited during the MIS 4-2 period, which corresponds to last Pleistocene glacial cycle. In particular, no absolute dating evidenced loess depositions older than ca. 89 ka. We investigated two strongly rubified soil profiles southern margin of Alpine range Lombardy prove their aeolian origin and age formation. analysed granulometry all geneti...