Testing and analysis for the pulp, paper, and allied industries. References Radiocarbon WEB-info Provides a large international listing of laboratories that do radiocarbon dating; information on radiocarbon dating; publications and references; and educational materials. Thermoluminescence dating, London; Orlando: Academic Press, xi, p. Authentication by thermoluminescence,” World of Tribal Arts, 1 4:

The luminescence dating of ceramic materials, including pottery and bricks, is an experimental method for determining the time elapsed in years since the ceramic material was produced by firing in a kiln.

Sitemap Thermoluminescence There are many different methods that are used to determine the age of archaeological artifacts, and each method measures something the others cannot. To name a few; radiocarbon dating measures the decay of carbon in biological substances, obsidian hydration measures the amount of water absorbed by an artifact made of obsidian, and thermoluminescence measures the stored energy in the lattice of stone.

Each method is completely different from the next but all of them find the same thing. The first observations of thermoluminescence were made in in a paper written by Robert Boyle to the Royal Society. It gave an account for observations Boyle made about “a diamond that shines in the dark. Until the ‘s when the photomultiplier was used as a sensitive detector of light, thermoluminescence was used only as a geological tool to identify minerals.

Then in the ‘s it was utilized to measure exposure to nuclear radiation. Thermoluminescence from ancient pottery was discovered in Bern, Switzerland in , and soon thereafter was developed for archaeological dating Aitken Above is a diagram of the equipment used to test for luminescence. Thermoluminescence dating TL takes an artifact that was at one point heated, such as a ceramic cooking pot, and heats it to measure the amount of light emitted Daniels par 1.

Within a crystalline material there exist imperfections, places in the crystal lattice that are damaged or faulted.