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Studies in the Natural Radioactivity of Prehistoric Materials

Edited by Arthur J. Jelinek and James E. Fitting
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This volume is a collection of reports from the 1950s and 1960s, when the use of radiocarbon dating in archaeology was still very new. Contributors: James E. Fitting, Charles E. Cleland, Lewis R. Binford, Arthur J. Jelinek.
  • Contents
  • Introduction / James E. Fitting
  • Part I
    • Methodology / James E. Fitting
    • Effect of Sample Preparation on Measurements of Natural Radioactivity / James E. Fitting
    • The Effect of Particle Size on the Beta Activity of Three Samples of Mixed Composition from Research Cave, Calloway County, Missouri / Charles E. Cleland and Arthur J. Jelinek
    • The Effect of Differential Charring on the Beta Activity of Bone from the Pecos River Valley, New Mexico / Charles E. Cleland
    • Heat Alteration and Radioactivity in Fossil Bone / James E. Fitting
    • Internal Variation in Radioactivity of a Standard Sample / James E. Fitting
  • Part II
    • Radioactive Assay of Bone Material from the Riverside Cemetery, Menominee County, Michigan / Lewis R. Binford
    • Radiometric Analysis of Bone and Soil Material from Lloyd's Rock Hole, Bedford County, Pennsylvania / Lewis R. Binford
    • Analysis of Bone Material from the Medicine Crow Site (39 BF 2) Buffalo County, South Dakota / Lewis R. Binford
    • Report on the Radiometric Analysis of Animal and Fish Bones from the Feeheley Site (20 SA 128) Saginaw County, Michigan / James E. Fitting
    • The Beta Activity of Human Bone from the Feeheley and Andrews Sites, Saginaw County, Michigan / Charles E. Cleland
    • Beta Activity of Animal Burials at the Juntunen Site (20 MK 1) on Bois Blanc Island / Charles E. Cleland
    • Report on the Beta Activity of Five Bone Samples from the Palegawra Site in Iraq / Charles E. Cleland
    • The Beta Activity of Four Bone Samples from Cueva Reclau, Gerona Province, Spain / Charles E. Cleland
    • A Study of Natural Radioactivity in Osteological Materials from the Blackwater Draw Number 1 Locality, Roosevelt County, New Mexico / James E. Fitting
    • A Gamma Ray Analysis of Fossil Bone from Blackwater Draw Number 1 Locality / James E. Fitting
    • Addendum: Chemical Isolation of Radioactive Elements in Archaeological and Paleontological Material / James E. Fitting
    • Summary / Arthur J. Jelinek
  • References
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Published: 1965
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
ISBN(s)
  • 978-1-949098-20-4 (paper)
  • 978-1-951519-43-8 (ebook)
Series
  • Anthropological Papers Series
Subject
  • Archaeology
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