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THERMOLUMINESCENCE (TL) dating of ancient fired ceramics is well established1–7. The process is neither very accurate nor well understood. The TL often comes from crystalline xenocrysts in the pottery8 which are of quartz and feldspar.
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MCMORRIS, D. Trapped-electron Dating: ESR Studies. Nature 222, 870–871 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222870a0
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