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Dr Lee Arnold – Podcast now available

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Corri Baker

Download the podcast of Dr Lee Arnold’s presentation titled ‘‘Optical dating in a new light: Improved and extended-range chronologies using single-grain techniques’.

The Environment Institute and the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing presented a free public seminar by Dr Lee Arnold from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), on Tuesday 4th September 2012.

Dr Arnold discussed his work with optical dating techniques and their application to the dating of sediments across a broad range of depositional settings. He has worked on projects looking at extinction of megafauna, climate change, and human archaeology.

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