An Improved Method for Radiocarbon Dating Fossil Bones
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Radiocarbon
- Vol. 35 (3) , 387-391
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200060392
Abstract
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.Keywords
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