Amino Acids in Fossil Human Bone
- 12 July 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 126 (3263) , 80
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.126.3263.80
Abstract
It is known that fossil human bones contain organic nitrogen, presumably derived from original proteins. To test this 20 fossil human and 3 fossil animal bones were first studied. Age was 1170-5385 years before the present. In these, most of the amino acids found in fresh bone were also found. In bones older than these, constituent amino acids began to disappear. Apparently aspartic acid is last to go, then glycine and glutamic acid.Keywords
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