Testing heated flint palaeodose protocols using dose recovery procedures

Accurate dose recovery is obtained for the standard and normalization protocols in the commonly employed detection window (UV-blue), the 'short' SAR in the orange-red window and some IT measurements. While the standard techniques give the most accurate and precise results, detection of the TL and IT orange-red emission in connection with a 'short' SAR protocol also gave accurate and precise results. Such procedures are especially suitable for samples too small for standard multiple aliquot techniques, which require large samples.