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Optical Dating of Quartz: A Comment on Stokes and Gaylord (1993)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Richard G. Roberts ,
Nigel A. Spooner  and
Danièle G. Questiaux
Richard G. Roberts*
Affiliation:
Division of Archaeology and Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Caberra ACT 0200, Australia
Nigel A. Spooner
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OXI 3QJ, United Kingdom
Danièle G. Questiaux
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OXI 3QJ, United Kingdom
*
1To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Information
Quaternary Research , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , July 1994 , pp. 108 - 109
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University of Washington

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