Radiocarbon dating

I Hajdas, P Ascough, MH Garnett, SJ Fallon… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Radiocarbon dating uses the decay of a radioactive isotope of carbon (14C) to measure time
and date objects containing carbon-bearing material. With a half-life of 5,700±30 years …

Dating of a large tool assemblage at the Cooper's Ferry site (Idaho, USA) to~ 15,785 cal yr BP extends the age of stemmed points in the Americas

LG Davis, DB Madsen, DA Sisson… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The timing and character of the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas are measured by the
discovery of unequivocal artifacts from well-dated contexts. We report the discovery of a well …

Environmental genomics of Late Pleistocene black bears and giant short-faced bears

MW Pedersen, B De Sanctis, NF Saremi, M Sikora… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Analysis of ancient environmental DNA (eDNA) has revolutionized our ability to describe
biological communities in space and time, 1–3 by allowing for parallel sequencing of DNA …

Linking structural and compositional changes in archaeological human bone collagen: An FTIR-ATR approach

A Martínez Cortizas, O López-Costas - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Collagen is the main structural and most abundant protein in the human body, and it is
routinely extracted and analysed in scientific archaeology. Its degree of preservation is …

Screening archaeological bone for palaeogenetic and palaeoproteomic studies

I Kontopoulos, K Penkman, VE Mullin, L Winkelbach… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The recovery and analysis of ancient DNA and protein from archaeological bone is time-
consuming and expensive to carry out, while it involves the partial or complete destruction of …

Fourier‐transform infrared spectroscopy of biofluids: A practical approach

AG Theakstone, C Rinaldi, HJ Butler… - Translational …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biofluid spectroscopy is an emerging technology in the field of clinical investigation,
providing a simple way to extract diagnostic and observational information from easy to …

[HTML][HTML] Peptide mass fingerprinting as a tool to assess micromammal biodiversity in Pleistocene South Africa: The case of Klipdrift Shelter

TH Nel, C Peters, KK Richter, C Henshilwood… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Remains of small mammals from archaeological sites are often used as
palaeoenvironmental proxies in the reconstruction of past environments. Yet, identification of …

Species identification of Australian marsupials using collagen fingerprinting

C Peters, KK Richter, T Manne… - Royal Society …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The study of faunal remains from archaeological sites is often complicated by the presence
of large numbers of highly fragmented, morphologically unidentifiable bones. In Australia …

Neanderthal subsistence, taphonomy and chronology at Salzgitter‐Lebenstedt (Germany): a multifaceted analysis of morphologically unidentifiable bone

K Ruebens, GM Smith, H Fewlass… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pleistocene faunal assemblages are often highly fragmented, hindering taxonomic
identifications and interpretive potentials. In this paper, we apply four different …

Testing the efficacy and comparability of ZooMS protocols on archaeological bone

W Naihui, B Samantha, D Peter, H Sandra, K Maxim… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Collagen peptide mass fingerprinting, best known as Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry
(or ZooMS) when applied to archaeology, has become invaluable for the taxonomic …