Application of Luminescence Dating Techniques in Geoarchaeological Studies (F02)

• Subject Area: Physical Geography
• Term: from 2009 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 57444011

The F2 project is responsible for dating various geo-archaeological sites and for improving luminescence dating techniques. In the 3rd phase of the CRC, project F2 will focus on extending and refining sediment chronologies and palaeoenvironmental records of cave and rock shelter deposits. This will be done also in concert with micromorphological studies that provide detailed analyses of the depositional context of sediments. Of particular interest are questions regarding post-depositional mixing of sediments, multiple- vs. single-grain dating, and overdispersion in single-grain luminescence dating.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 806: Our Way to Europe: Culture-Environment Interaction and Human Mobility in the Late Quaternary
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Helmut Brückner; Dr. Alexandra Hilgers, until 12/2013; Professor Dr. Ulrich Radtke, until 6/2013