Assessing hunter-gatherer mobility in Cis-Baikal, Siberia using LA-ICP-MS: Methodological correction for laser interactions with calcium phosphate matrices and the potential for integrated LA-ICP-MS sampling of archaeological skeletal materials

Laser Ablation: Effects and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 45-97

  Scharlotta, Ian ^a   Weber, Andrzej ^a   Andy DuFane, S ^a   Goriunova, Olga I ^a   Creaser, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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