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SUBMITTER: Marom A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3344984 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marom Anat A McCullagh James S O JS Higham Thomas F G TF Sinitsyn Andrey A AA Hedges Robert E M RE
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120418 18
Archaeological bones are usually dated by radiocarbon measurement of extracted collagen. However, low collagen content, contamination from the burial environment, or museum conservation work, such as addition of glues, preservatives, and fumigants to "protect" archaeological materials, have previously led to inaccurate dates. These inaccuracies in turn frustrate the development of archaeological chronologies and, in the Paleolithic, blur the dating of such key events as the dispersal of anatomic ...[more]