NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE ON HUMAN EVOLUTION

Along with luminescence, ESR is a landmark in Quaternary chronometry. ESR dating has a greater time range than most of the other Quaternary dating methods, extending to about 2 million years in the case of tooth enamel. It allows direct dating of paleontological remains, as opposed to other techniques which use the matrix of the remains. The technique involves the use of a magnetic field to excite and detect trapped electrons.

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