| Abstract: | During the last 30 years, fission-track dating has become a versatile geochronological tool.1 Fission-tracks, discovered in the early 1960s,2 were subsequently used to determine the age of minerals and glasses.3 Although low track densities can make fission-track dating tedious and time-consuming, the technique can provide important data for material in time ranges as young as the last few million years. In anthropological studies, fission-track dating is most useful for dating burned artifacts and volcanic ashes intercalated with hominid-bearing layers. |
