Use of Amino Acids and Amino Acid Racemization for Age Determination in Archaeometry

Progress in Biological Chirality

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 65-78

  Csapo J ^a,c   Collins, M ^b   Csapo Kiss Z ^a   Varga Visi, E ^a   Pohn, G ^a  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-008044396-6/50008-3     Document Type: Chapter

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