Single amino acid radiocarbon dating of Upper Paleolithic modern humans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6878-6881

  Marom, Anat ^a   McCullagh, James S O ^b   Higham, Thomas F G ^a   Sinitsyn, Andrey A ^c   Hedges, Robert E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Accelerator mass spectrometry; HPLC; Kostenki; Sungir

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COLLAGEN; HYDROXYPROLINE;

ACCURACY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BONE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; PALEOLITHIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE AND BONES; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COLLAGEN; FOSSILS; FUNERAL RITES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HYDROXYPROLINE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN; RUSSIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84860819329     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1116328109     Document Type: Article

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