ESR Dating Ungulate Teeth and Molluscs from the Paleolithic Site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis Basin, Greece
quaternary Article ESR Dating Ungulate Teeth and Molluscs from the Paleolithic Site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis Basin, Greece Bonnie A. B. Blackwell 1,2,*, Neeraj Sakhrani 2, Impreet K. Singh 2, Kalyani K. Gopalkrishna 2, Vangelis Tourloukis 3 , Eleni Panagopoulou 4, Panagiotis Karkanas 5 , Joel I. B. Blickstein 2, Anne R. Skinner 1,2, Jonathan A. Florentin 1,2 and Katerina Harvati 3 1 Department of Chemistry, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267-2692, USA; anne.r.skinner@williams.edu (A.R.S.); jonathan.a.florentin@williams.edu (J.A.F.) 2 RFK Science Research Institute, Glenwood Landing, NY 11547-0866, USA; neeraj.sakrani@gmail.com (N.S.); impreet98@gmail.com (I.K.S.); gopalkrishna.kalyani@gmail.com (K.K.G.); joelblickstein@gmail.com (J.I.B.B.) 3 Paleoanthropology, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Eberhard Karls Universität, 72070 Tübingen, Germany; vangelis.tourloukis@ifu.uni-tuebingen.de (V.T.); katerina.harvati@ifu.uni-tuebingen.de (K.H.) 4 Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology-Speleology, Ardittou 34b, 11636 Athens, Greece; elenipanagopoulou@yahoo.com 5 Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science, American School of Classical Studies, Souidias 54, 10636 Athens, Greece; tkarkanas@ascsa.edu.gr * Correspondence: bonnie.a.b.blackwell@williams.edu; Tel.: +1-413-597-2285 Academic Editor: Valentí Rull Received: 10 August 2018; Accepted: 7 October 2018; Published: 15 October 2018 Abstract: At 37◦240 N 22◦80 E, the Megalopolis Basin lies in the central Peloponnese Peninsula, southwestern Greece. In the Megalopolis Basin at ~350 m amsl, the Paleolithic site, Marathousa 1, sits within a palustrine/lacustrine clastic package between Lignite Seams III and II, that both likely correlate with interglacial periods.
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