Early Diagenetic Evolution of Bone Phosphate: An X-ray Diffractometry Analysis

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 211-221

  Person, Alain ^a,b   Bocherens, Hervé ^a,c   Saliège, Jean François ^a   Paris, François ^d   Zeitoun, Valéry ^e   Gérard, Martine ^f  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ORSTOM   (Egypt)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^f INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Bone carbonate hydroxylapatite; Diagenesis; Organic matter preservation; Xrd crystallinity index

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000398462     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jasc.1995.0023     Document Type: Article

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