Case Studies

New Publication Utilizes μDose Measurements to Study Archaeological Site in Idaho
Scenic view of the Lochsa River in the Clearwater Forest of Idaho (United States) This photo was provided by and used with permission of the Idaho Travel Council ([1]) Please credit the Idaho Travel Council when used (licensed under CC BY 2.5) Researchers have published preliminary findings from their reinvestigation of the Kelly Forks Work Center Site (10CW34), an archaeological site located on the North Fork Clearwater River in the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest, Idaho. The site, which dates back to the late Pleistocene to late Holocene period, was previously thought to contain components associated with the Western Stemmed Tradition. The researchers utilized μDose…

μDOSE System for Hazard Indices Estimation
A recent publication by Rocznik et al. (2023) demonstrated the μDOSE’s capability in accurately estimating various hazard indices (HI), including activity concentration index, radium equivalent…

New Publication Utilizes μDose Measurements to Study Archaeological Site in Idaho
Scenic view of the Lochsa River in the Clearwater Forest of Idaho (United States) This photo was provided by and used with permission of the…

New Interdisciplinary Study Uncovers Prehistoric Rural Settlement and Landscape Development in Northern Bavaria
A new interdisciplinary study on rural settlement and landscape development in northern Bavaria, Germany has been published. The study involved archaeological and geoarchaeological investigations supported by radiocarbon…

New Study Provides Absolute Dates for Artifacts from Lusatian Urnfield Cemetery at Brzezie, Greater Poland
Archaeologists have made a step toward uncovering the history of the Lusatian Urnfield Cemetery at Brzezie in the Pleszew region of Greater Poland. After many…

Study Examines Impact of Internal Dose Rates on Luminescence Dating Results in Quartz Grains with uDOSE System
A new study (Szymak et al., 2022) has examined the impact of internal alpha and beta dose rates in quartz grains obtained from sandy sediments…

μDose Solutions at DLED2022
We are happy to let you know that μDose Solutions was once again present at the DLED Conference (4-6 Nov). This year’s edition was organised…

μRate
Try μRate free dose rate calculator for trapped charge dating It takes into account all corrections described in the literature, allows storing results, recalculating the…

µDose system application in OSL dating for establishing land use practices in the Middle Bronze Age
A reconstruction of land use practices that were performed in the Middle Bronze Age in north-western Alpine foreland was conducted by Scherer et al., (2021)….

Application of Cs-137, Pb-210 and dendrochronology dating for erosion-sedimentation event study
In order to better reconstruct erosion-sedimentation events in loess gully system in southern Poland, a combination of 137Cs, 210Pb (HRGS; γBeaker) and dendrochronology dating was…

Assessment of Late glacial and Holocene aeolian sediments, related to the Last Glacial maximum, in western-central Poland
Analysis of Late glacial and Holocene samples obtained by Moska et al., (2021) from 3 representative profiles located in western-central Poland was performed to establish…

µDose performance report
In order to determine the µDose System performance precisely, the results obtained with µDose measurements were compared with other, well-established methods of low-level radioactivity assessment…

Investigation on the impact of 222Ra emanation from reference materials and how it influences HRGS measurements with γBEAKERS
222Ra emanation from reference materials

Rare rhinoceroses of the genus Stephanorhinus, palaeoenvironmental evolution and Quaternary palaeolakes study
Rare rhinoceroses of the genus Stephanorhinus, palaeoenvironmental evolution and Quaternary palaeolakes study by Sobczyk et al., (2020) in Journal of Quaternary Science Sobczyk, A., Borówka,…

γBEAKERs used for more accurate supported and unsupported 210Pb measurements
γBEAKERs used for more accurate supported and unsupported 210Pb measurements with high resolution gamma spectrometry (Malik et al., 2021). Malik, I., Poręba, G., Wistuba, M.,…

Dune formation in the Younger Dryas
Dune formation in the Younger Dryas, Allerød warm phase record in well-dated palaeosol and climate minimum at the Late Pleniglacial (24−17 ka) record deciphered from…

Notes on μDOSE system application in trapped charge dating by Moska (2019) in Quaternary International and Zöller and Schmidt (2020) in the Bunsen-Magazin
Marks, L., Bińka, K., Woronko, B., Majecka, A., Teodorski, A., 2019. Revision of the late Middle Pleistocene stratigraphy and palaeoclimate in Poland. Quaternary International 534,…

Filling palaeoclimatic gaps in the Late Middle Pleistocene
Dating was supported with dose rates provided by the μDOSE system. Read detail in Marks et al. (2019). Marks, L., Bińka, K., Woronko, B., Majecka,…