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Further Tests of the EDTA Treatment of Bones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Ingrid U Olsson
Ingrid U Olsson*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Box 530, SE-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden. Email: Ingrid_U.Olsson@Fysik.uu.se.
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A new suite of five dates on a whale rib from Varangerfjord was completed on different fractions obtained by EDTA treatment. The intention was to test the possible influence of contaminants, the criteria for complete reactions, and the reliability of the treatment in light of scattered values obtained earlier on samples from Varangerfjord. The yield on the treatment of the selected bone did, however, not allow any general conclusions regarding the influence of contaminants in nature. The results are interesting from an inter-sample comparison point of view. Included are observations, made during treatment, of pH and color changes as well as the appearance of the samples. These observations are provided as a reference for deciding when the treatment is complete.

Type
Research Article
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , 2000 , pp. 49 - 52
Copyright
Copyright © 2000 The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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