Enhanced methods for assessment of the trace element composition of Iron Age bone

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 401, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 144-161

  Shafer, Martin M ^a   Siker, Malika ^b   Overdier, Joel T ^a   Ramsl, Peter C ^c   Teschler Nicola, Maria ^c   Farrell, Philip M ^b  

^a WISCONSIN STATE LABORATORY OF HYGIENE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bone; Contamination; ICP MS; Iron Age; Trace element

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CONTAMINATION EVALUATION; IRON AGE;

BONE;

CADMIUM; CALCIUM; COBALT; MANGANESE; NICKEL; PLUTONIUM; SILVER; TRACE ELEMENT;

ACID; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BONE; CALCIUM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; ELEMENT MOBILITY; IRON AGE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITRIC ACID; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOIL POLLUTION; TRACE ELEMENT; TRACER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CALCIUM BONE LEVEL; CONTAMINATION; FEMUR; IRON AGE; LEACHING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; FOSSILS; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 44749092857     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.02.063     Document Type: Article

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