This paper focuses on advances in archaeological bone chemistry since 1989. At that time
studies generally shifted from development and application of techniques in bone chemistry …

Animal ecologists can observe the present and reconstruct the last one or two centuries from
historical sources, but the study of animal bones adds valuable insight into the peoples and …

This introductory textbook introduces the basics of dating, the range of techniques available
and the strengths and limitations of each of the principal methods. Coverage includes: the …

Dating the Quaternary, which covers approximately the last 2 million years, has experienced
considerable progress over the past few decades. On the one hand, this resulted from the …

This paper reviews the numerical dates available for the late Lower Paleolithic and early
Middle Paleolithic in the Levant. We also present here new electron spin resonance dates …

An argument for the possibility of uranium uptake by buried bone taking place through the
adsorption of uranyl species on bone mineral is advanced. In the light of this a diffusion …

U-series dating of bone has suffered problems of reliability since its inception because bone
remains an open system with respect to uranium. Commonly applied a priori assumptions of …

Nine human skeletons of medieval date from a rural English burial site show signs of
skeletal tuberculosis. They were subject to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays aimed …

The present work shows that U can be effectively removed from groundwater using
permeable reactive barriers with hydroxyapatite (HAP) as reactive material. The main factor …

Bone remains play an important role in archaeology as a source of information about the
past. However, they alter over time. Alteration occurs at all scales from the macroscopic to …