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Comparative Decalcification Methods, Radiocarbon Dates, and Stable Isotopes of the VIRI Bones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Noreen Tuross
Noreen Tuross*
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Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02130, USA. Email: tuross@fas.harvard.edu
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The Fifth International Radiocarbon Comparison (VIRI) provided a suite of 5 bone samples with consensus ages ranging from 969 to 39,305 14C yr BP (Scott et al. 2010). These bones were used herein in a comparison of decalcification methods using either HCl or EDTA to produce collagen, and the results demonstrate age concordance between both preparation methods and the VIRI consensus values. Additional isotopic analyses of the collagen (δ13C, δ15N, and δ18O) illustrate the increasing sensitivity of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotopes in assessing gelatin degradation.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 54 , Issue 3-4 , 2012, pp. 837 - 844
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Copyright © 2012 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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