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Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating is essential to establish a chronometry for the reconstruction of the history of the landscape development in the Palpa-Nasca region. To achieve this, we apply both traditional techniques based on the preparation of disturbed samples and a novel, spatially resolved HR-OSL technique used for samples with their original mineral-grain structure (Greilich and Wagner, this volume). The new technique offers a great potential to access new types of sediment archives relevant to geomorphological and geoarchaeological studies.
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Kadereit, A., Greilich, S., Woda, C., Wagner, G.A. (2009). Cold Light from the Sediments of a Hot Desert: How Luminescence Dating Sheds Light on the Landscape Development of the Northeastern Atacama. In: Reindel, M., Wagner, G.A. (eds) New Technologies for Archaeology. Natural Science in Archaeology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87438-6_15
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