James K. Feathers

I began work in luminescence dating as a graduate student. After receiving my PhD in 1990 from the University of Washington, I had a post-doc at the University of Maryland luminescence laboratory in 1992-3. I became director of the luminescence laboratory at the University of Washington in fall 1993, a job I have continuously held to the present. Our laboratory processes some 300 samples per year. I have more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, most of them on some aspect of luminescence dating. My main expertise is in the application of luminescence dating to archaeological problems. I was recently invited to address the 14th International Conference on Luminescence Dating and Electron Spin Resonance (Montreal, 2014) on dating of archaeological sediments. I also have a chapter on that subject in the Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods (Springer, 2015). I have done dating work on all seven continents, but have been particularly focused on South America

September 2016