WORKSHOPS

This workshop addresses the complexity of establishing precise chronological frameworks for archaeological and paleontological sites in tropical regions and integrating them in well-dated environmental contexts. Assessing the chronology of a site/environment is often the main obstacle to interpreting archaeological assemblages and comparing them with similar records from a techno-cultural or anthropological perspective. Indeed, each dating technique is characterized by inherent methodological or geological challenges that limit their scope of application and comparison for common stratigraphies. For this reason, the development of cross-dating applications is crucial. This workshop aims to present multidisciplinary approaches that have not only enabled the confident dating of archaeological and paleontological sites, but also to improve the current knowledge of the most used dating methods in Pleistocene tropical environments (40Ar/39Ar, ESR, ESR/U-series, U/Th, TL, OSL, 14C...). We also encourage studies that present the precise synchronization and correlation of sites with regional environmental records dated by the same geochronological approaches.