Collagen Fingerprinting: A new screening technique for radiocarbon dating ancient bone

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Harvey, Virginia L ^a   Egerton, Victoria M ^a,b   Chamberlain, Andrew T ^a   Manning, Phillip L ^a,b   Buckley, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; COLLAGEN; CARBON; NITROGEN; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BONE; BONE MINERALIZATION; CAPROMYS; CAYMAN ISLANDS; COLLAGEN FINGERPRINTING; EXTINCT SPECIES; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NONHUMAN; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; CALIBRATION; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CHEMISTRY; FOSSIL; HUMAN; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; PALEONTOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RODENT;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; BONE AND BONES; CALIBRATION; CARBON; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; COLLAGEN; FOSSILS; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN; PALEONTOLOGY; PEPTIDES; RADIOMETRIC DATING; RODENTIA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; WEST INDIES;

EID: 84961792846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150650     Document Type: Article

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