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J Archaeol Sci 31 (4)
Title
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Title:
J Archaeol Sci 31 (4)
Series
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Series:
Journal of Archaeological Science
Volume
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Volume:
31 (4)
Publication Type
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Publication Type:
Journal
Editor
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Editor:
Karl W Butzer
John P Grattan
Julian Henderson
Richard G Klein
Publisher
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Publisher:
Academic Press
Year of Publication
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Year of Publication:
2004
Source
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Source:
BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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Created Date:
03 Dec 2004
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Abstract
Determining the `local' 87Sr/86Sr range for archaeological skeletons: a case study from Neolithic Europe
R Alexander Bentley
T Douglas Price
Elisabeth Stephan
365 - 375
Measurement of strontium isotopes in archaeological skeletons is an effective technique for characterizing prehistoric mobility. However, interpretation of the results can be highly sensitive to small changes in the determined `local' 87Sr/86Sr signature at an archaeological site. Because the local range is often defined as within 2 s.d. from the mean 87Sr/86Sr value in archaeological human bones, the susceptibility of bones to diagenesis may lead to significant overestimates in the number of `non-locals' at a particular site. Tooth enamel, on the other hand, is highly resistant to postmortem biochemical alteration, and it is found that 87Sr/86Sr in archaeological enamel samples from animals of Neolithic Germany provide a useful alternative estimate for the local range.
Fabric of Palaeolithic levels: methods and implications for site formation proces...
Arnaud Lenoble
Pascal Bertran
457 - 469
Fabric analysis in archaeological contexts, i.e. the study of the orientation and dip of artefacts, has been improved during the last decade with respect to the statistical treatment of data, the development of a reference base for natural sedimentary processes and the increased number of data for Palaeolithic levels. These works show that fabrics are an efficient tool for assessing site formation processes. Fabrics allow discrimination between undisturbed (or minimally disturbed) levels; levels that have undergone strong pedoturbations; and levels that have been significantly reworked by slope processes. However, in the present state of knowledge, fabrics do not allow precise estimation of the degree of perturbation if not associated with other archaeological and geological criteria. From the set of data on French Palaeolithic sites used here, it is demonstrated that slope dynamics and particularly solifluction for sites predating the Late Glacial may have played an important role in site formation.
Dating bog bodies by means of 14C-AMS
Johannes Van der Plicht
W A B Sanden, van der
A T Bijma Aerts
H J Streurman
471 - 491
The authors made efforts to date a substantial number of bodies from northwest European peat bogs by means of 14C, comparing materials such as skin, hair, bone, textile, leather and wood where available. Most of the bodies investigated were found to date from the Late Iron Age/Roman period (c. second century BC--fourth century AD). The authors argue that data set shows that bog bodies in general can be successfully dated by means of 14C analysis, in contradiction of claims that `peat bogs can age corpses so as to distort completely the usefulness of radiocarbon'.
