Comparative Study of the Radiocarbon Dating of Different Bone Collagen Preparations
Issue Date
1987-01-01Keywords
Yukon TerritoryOld Crow River
Rosse Bay
Cape Storm
Ellesmere Island
Franklin District Northwest Territories
Queen Elizabeth Islands
Canada
Northwest Territories
Western Canadacollagenproteinsorganic compoundsorganic materialsbonesmethodsgeochronologyC 14carbondatesisotopesradioactive isotopesabsolute age
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Gurfinkel, D. (1987). Comparative study of the radiocarbon dating of different bone collagen preparations. Radiocarbon, 29(1), 45-52.Publisher
American Journal of ScienceJournal
RadiocarbonAdditional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
Four different bone collagen preparation procedures were compared and were found useful as a means of assessing the nature of contaminants present in a sample. Weathered bone however appeared to contain contaminants that could not be eliminated by any of the procedures studied.Type
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