Burning and boiling of modern deer bone: Effects on crystallinity and oxygen isotope composition of bioapatite phosphate

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 249, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 90-102

  Munro, L E ^a   Longstaffe, F J ^a   White, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioapatite; Diagenesis; Heating; Recrystallization; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BONE; BURNING; CRYSTALLINITY; DEER; DIAGENESIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PHOSPHATE;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 34248181499     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.01.011     Document Type: Article

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