New protocol for compound-specific radiocarbon analysis of archaeological bones

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 373-379

  Deviese, Thibaut ^a   Comeskey, Daniel ^a   McCullagh, James ^b   Bronk Ramsey, Christopher ^a   Higham, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; CARBON; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROXYPROLINE; MAMMALS; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; AMINO-ACIDS; BONE COLLAGEN; CARBON-BASED; CONVENTIONAL METHODS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NEW PROTOCOL; PREPARATIVE CHROMATOGRAPHY; RADIOCARBON ANALYSIS; SAMPLE PRETREATMENT;

COLLAGEN;

AMINO ACID; CARBON; COLLAGEN; PROLINE;

ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; BONE; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION STUDY; FOSSIL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE AND BONES; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COLLAGEN; FOSSILS; PROLINE; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

EID: 85042082194     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.8047     Document Type: Article

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