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Direct Bone Dating in a Small CO2 Counter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Rainer Berger
Rainer Berger*
Affiliation:
Archaeology Program, Departments of Anthropology and Geography, and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024
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Abstract

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A small 200ml capacity CO2 proportional counting system has been developed which uses only 100mg of carbon for complete filling. Thus, with respect to the small quantities needed, it compares favorably to dedicated accelerators at significantly lower cost. The performance of this equipment is demonstrated using a variety of samples including some human bone fragments from La Jolla which had been estimated to be 28,000 years old by aspartic acid racemization analysis.

Type
VII. Archaeology
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 25 , Issue 2: 11th International Radiocarbon Conference , 1983 , pp. 655 - 659
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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