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AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Bones at LSCE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

N Tisnérat-Laborde ,
H Valladas ,
E Kaltnecker  and
M Arnold
N Tisnérat-Laborde*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR CEA-CNRS 1572, Avenue de la Terrasse, F-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
H Valladas
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR CEA-CNRS 1572, Avenue de la Terrasse, F-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
E Kaltnecker
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR CEA-CNRS 1572, Avenue de la Terrasse, F-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
M Arnold
Affiliation:
Gif-sur-Yvette Tandetron facility, UMS 2004, Avenue de la Terrasse, F-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
*
Corresponding author. Email: tisnerat@lsce.cnrs-gif.fr.
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In this paper, we explain our routine pretreatment of bone for radiocarbon dating by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), based on the specific reaction between amino acids and ninhydrin described by Nelson (1991). The values and uncertainties of the total system background are presented as a function of the carbon sample mass and the reliability of this method is discussed.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , 2003 , pp. 409 - 419
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Copyright © The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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