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D-Index
34
Citations
5871
World Ranking
7845
National Ranking
2651

Best Publications

  • An introduction to optical dating

    James K. Feathers

  • Paleoindian Cave Dwellers in the Amazon: The Peopling of the Americas

    A. C. Roosevelt;M. Lima da Costa;C. Lopes Machado;M. Michab

  • Luminescence Dating in Less Than Ideal Conditions: Case Studies from Klasies River Main Site and Duinefontein, South Africa

    James K Feathers

  • The Archaeology of Aduma Middle Stone Age Sites in the Awash Valley, Ethiopia

    J Yellen;A Brooks;D Helgren;M Tappen

  • A mound complex in Louisiana at 5400-5000 years before the present

    Joe W. Saunders;Rolfe D. Mandel;Roger T. Saucier;E. Thurman Allen

  • Watson Brake, a Middle Archaic Mound Complex in Northeast Louisiana

    Joe W. Saunders;Rolfe D. Mandel;C. Garth Sampson;Charles M. Allen

  • Use of luminescence dating in archaeology

    James K Feathers

  • Effects of Temper on Strength of Ceramics: Response to Bronitsky and Hamer

    James K. Feathers

  • Luminescence dating of Middle Stone Age deposits at Die Kelders.

    James K. Feathers;Daniel A. Bush

  • Luminescence Dating in Archaeology, Anthropology, and Geoarchaeology: An Overview

    Ioannis Liritzis;Ashok Kumar Singhvi;James K. Feathers;Gunther A. Wagner

  • How old is Luzia? Luminescence dating and stratigraphic integrity at Lapa Vermelha, Lagoa Santa, Brazil

    James Feathers;Renato Kipnis;Luis Piló;Manuel Arroyo-Kalin

  • Lapa das boleiras rockshelter: stratigraphy and formation processes at a paleoamerican site in Central Brazil

    Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araújo;James K Feathers;Manuel Arroyo-Kalin;Michelle M Tizuka

  • Explaining Shell-Tempered Pottery in Prehistoric Eastern North America

    James K. Feathers

  • Peopling South America's centre: the late Pleistocene site of Santa Elina

    Denis Vialou;Mohammed Benabdelhadi;James Feathers;Michel Fontugne

  • Single-grain OSL dating of sediments from the Southern High Plains, USA

    James K Feathers

  • Optically stimulated luminescence dating of Southern High Plains archaeological sites

    James K. Feathers;Vance T. Holliday;David J. Meltzer

  • User guide for luminescence sampling in archaeological and geological contexts

    Michelle S. Nelson;Harrison J. Gray;Jack A. Johnson;Tammy M. Rittenour

  • Constraining the Late Wisconsinan retreat of the Laurentide ice sheet from western Canada using luminescence ages from postglacial aeolian dunes

    Kennedy Munyikwa;James K. Feathers;Tammy M. Rittenour;Heather K. Shrimpton

  • Application of OSL single-aliquot and single-grain dating to quartz from anthropogenic soil profiles in the SE United States

    D.A. Bush;J.K. Feathers

  • Widespread platinum anomaly documented at the Younger Dryas onset in North American sedimentary sequences

    Christopher R. Moore;Allen West;Malcolm A. LeCompte;Mark J. Brooks

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