Dentin samples of 50 milligrams were drilled from the pulp cavity region of human incisors from a series of burials on the Polynesian outlier of Taumako in the Solomon Islands. ESR spectra were obtained, and the height of the peak near <i>g</i> = 2.002 compared with that for an internal ruby standard was used for dating purposes. The 15 archaeological specimens fit into a tight chronological sequence, and the age of the burial ground was dated by radiocarbon to A.D. 1530 ± 50 years. Where independent stratigraphic information exists on the relative ages of burials, the ESR results are in the correct relative order. Calculated age differences between these burials are as low as 2 years. -- AATA