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An Improved Method for Radiocarbon Dating Fossil Bones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Kh. A. Arslanov and
Yu. S. Svezhentsev
Kh. A. Arslanov
Affiliation:
Geographical Research Institute, St. Petersburg State University, Sredniy Prospect 41 St. Petersburg 199004 Russia
Yu. S. Svezhentsev
Affiliation:
Institute of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvorts-ovaya Nabezhnaya 18 St. Petersburg 199000 Russia
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Abstract

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We demonstrate here that the use of either the acid-alkali or Longin method alone does not fully extract contaminants from bone-collagen fractions. We present our methods and results of extracting bone collagen that involve successive use of both of these methods.

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Type
Methodological Studies
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , 1993, pp. 387 - 391
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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