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Non-Age-Related Variations in Aspartic Acid Racemization in Bone From a Radiocarbon-Dated Late Holocene Archaeological Site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2018

R E Taylor ,
P J Ennis ,
P J Slota Jr  and
L A Payen
R E Taylor
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Department of Anthropology Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California Riverside, California 92521
P J Ennis
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Department of Anthropology Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California Riverside, California 92521
P J Slota Jr
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Department of Anthropology Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California Riverside, California 92521
L A Payen
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Department of Anthropology Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California Riverside, California 92521
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Wide variations in D/Lasp values are exhibited in a series of bone samples of assumed similar age associated with a suite of 14C determinations from stratified contexts in a late Holocene archaeological site. In this group of bone samples, major differences in D/Lasp ratios appear to be correlated primarily with variability in amino acid nitrogen content and Gly/Glu ratios.

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IV. Applications
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Radiocarbon , Volume 31 , Issue 3: June 20-25, 1988 Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia , 1989 , pp. 1048 - 1056
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