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- Title
HYDROXYPROLINE DATING: EXPERIMENTS ON THE <sup>14</sup>C ANALYSIS OF CONTAMINATED AND LOW-COLLAGEN BONES.
- Authors
Marom, Anat; McCullagh, James S. O.; Higham, Thomas F. G.; Hedges, Robert E. M.
- Abstract
Dating of the amino acid hydroxyproline from bone collagen has been shown to produce accurate and reliable radiocarbon dates. This article presents further application of the method demonstrating it can be used to obtain dates for both low-collagen and contaminated bones, extending the capability of 14C dating archaeological bone from conventional limits imposed by alternative pretreatment methods. The method therefore has the potential for significantly benefiting the accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating community in the 14C dating of archaeological bone.
- Subjects
COLLAGEN; HYDROXYPROLINE; RADIOCARBON dating; CARBON isotopes; ARCHAEOLOGY methodology; ACCELERATOR mass spectrometry; RADIOACTIVE decontamination
- Publication
Radiocarbon, 2013, Vol 55, Issue 2, p698
- ISSN
0033-8222
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0033822200057854