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Radiocarbon Dating of Pleistocene Bone: Toward Criteria for the Selection of Samples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

R E Taylor
R E Taylor*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California
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Abstract

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Amino acid composition data and stable isotope ratios (14N, D, and13C) are being evaluated as sources of information to indicate the presence of non-indigenous organics in bone samples intended for 14C analyses. The study is being conducted in the context of the planned measurement of Pleistocene bone samples by a high energy mass spectrometric 14C detection system.

Type
Dating Various Materials
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 22 , Issue 3: Heidelberg , 1980 , pp. 969 - 979
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science

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