I haven't heard of this method being used on bone.
One question I have is whether the necessary chemical assays would cost
less than radiocarbon dating.
Richard
On 27/10/2012 03:51, Pirkko Ukkonen wrote:
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> Dear colleagues, Has anyone heard anything more about the method developed by Kjell Johnsson (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440396901272) in the 90s coursly separating subfossil bones from recent ones using diagenetic changes in bone apatite? Or has someone even used it? We have a lot of horse bones and teeth in our museum collections, and dating them all would be much too expensive - especially since most or all of them are propably recent and have only been buried deep by their owners. But what if.... Cheers, Dr. Pirkko Ukkonen, curator
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