When Dental Enamel is Put to the Acid Test: Pretreatment Effects and Radiocarbon Dating

Radiocarbon

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 893-904

  Hopkins, Rachel J A ^a   Snoeck, Christophe ^b   Higham, Thomas F G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

diagenesis; experiment; pretreatment; radiocarbon dating

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIAGENESIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; MAMMAL; PALEOLITHIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; TESTING METHOD; TOOTH;

BOS; EQUIDAE;

EID: 85042914606     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2016.52     Document Type: Article

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