skip to navigation
ADS Main Website
Help
|
Login
/
Browse by Series
/
Series
/ Journal Issue
J Archaeol Sci 26 (2)
Title
The title of the publication or report
Title:
J Archaeol Sci 26 (2)
Series
The series the publication or report is included in
Series:
Journal of Archaeological Science
Volume
Volume number and part
Volume:
26 (2)
Publication Type
The type of publication - report, monograph, journal article or chapter from a book
Publication Type:
Journal
Year of Publication
The year the book, article or report was published
Year of Publication:
1999
Note
Extra information on the publication or report.
Note:
Date Of Issue From: 1999
Source
Where the record has come from or which dataset it was orginally included in.
Source:
BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
Created Date
The date the record of the pubication was first entered
Created Date:
20 Jan 2002
Please click on an Article link to go to the Article Details.
Article Title
Access Type
Author / Editor
Page
Start/End
Abstract
Alteration of enamel carbonate environments during fossilization
Matt Sponheimer
Julia A Lee-Thorp
143 - 150
Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy analysis on modern and fossil tooth enamel (from South African sites) indicate a small but significant change in the proportion of carbonate ions occupying hydroxyl and phosphate sites in fossil enamel. This seems to occur early in fossilisation and varies in degree between and within sites. It is suggested that this change results from one or some combination of three mechanisms: exogenous carbonate incorporation; endogenous carbonate loss; and endogenous carbonate reorganisation. It is further thought that determining which mechanism/s contribute is important because all three are likely to affect biogenic carbon isotope ratios differently.
Measurement of changes in trabecular bone structure with age in an archaeological population
Megan B Brickley
P G T Howell
151 - 157
The fourth lumbar vertebral bodies of seventy-nine eighteenth--nineteenth-century individuals from St Bride's Lower Churchyard (Farringdon Street) and Cross Bones Burial Ground (Southwark) in London were studied using a digital stereocomparator. Significant differences between sexes and ages were noted. It is suggested that the technique may be suitable for use on modern autopsy samples.
Field-portable non-destructive analysis of lithic archaeological samples by x-ray fluorescence instrumentation using a mercury iodide detector: comparison with wavelength-dispersive XRF and a case study in British stone axe provenancing
Olwen Williams-Thorpe
Philip J Potts
Peter C Webb
215 - 237
Seven British prehistoric stone implements (axes, axe-hammers and a mace-head) in the National Museum & Gallery of Wales (Cardiff) were analysed non-destructively using PXRF (portable x-ray fluorescence) to assess the potential of this method in the provenancing of stone implements in situ.
