Radiocarbon dating of individual amino acids from archaeological bone collagen

Radiocarbon

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 620-634

  McCullagh, James S O ^a   Marom, Anat ^a   Hedges, Robert E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; AMINO ACID; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BONE; COLLAGEN; HUMIC ACID; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78049254915     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200045653     Document Type: Article

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