thermoluminescence

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Known for its striking rock art, researchers proposed in 1989 that the shelter was the oldest human occupation in Australia, after they dated sediments containing stone tools to 50,000 to 60,000 years ago using the then-experimental method of thermoluminescence.

From Science Magazine

They used a technique called thermoluminescence to date stone tools found in the same stratum as the fossils.

From Economist

A method called thermoluminescence, or TL, dating can gauge the last time an object was heated, by measuring the electrons trapped within it. Fortuitously, the inhabitants of the Jebel Irhoud cave burned their flint tools.

From Washington Post

Archaeologist Daniel Richter of the Max Planck in Leipzig used a thermoluminescence technique to measure how much time had elapsed since crystalline minerals in the flint were heated by fire.

From Science Magazine

Dr. Hublin and his colleagues used a method called thermoluminescence to calculate how much time had passed since the blades were burned.

From New York Times