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Methods of Radiocarbon Determination in Wine and Bone Samples by Gas Proportional Counting Technique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2018

Jakub Kaizer ,
Ján Obuch ,
Ivan Kontuľ ,
Alexander Šivo ,
Marta Richtáriková ,
Peter Čech  and
Pavel P Povinec
Jakub Kaizer*
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, 84248 Bratislava, Slovakia
Ján Obuch
Affiliation:
Botanical Garden, Comenius University, 03815 Blatnica, Slovakia
Ivan Kontuľ
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, 84248 Bratislava, Slovakia
Alexander Šivo
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, 84248 Bratislava, Slovakia
Marta Richtáriková
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, 84248 Bratislava, Slovakia
Peter Čech
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Isotope Geology, State Geological Institute of Dionýz Štúr, 81704 Bratislava, Slovakia
Pavel P Povinec
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, 84248 Bratislava, Slovakia
*
*Corresponding author. Email: kaizer@fmph.uniba.sk.
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Abstract

Although radiocarbon accelerator mass spectrometry (14C AMS) surpasses conventional radiometric methods in many aspects, they still represent an interesting alternative, especially for studies unconstrained by sample size. Here we showed that the gas proportional counting technique can be used for bone samples, processed only by a simple ABA method, and ethanol, distilled from wine samples. The feasibility of the described methods was verified by successful dating of 11 well-preserved vertebrate bones of modern to 21 kyr BP age excavated from different caves in Slovakia from which collagen was also extracted, as well as by determination of 14C concentration in two modern western Slovakia vintages, which matches well the atmospheric Δ14C level for the respective region and grape vegetation period. Various empiric factors affecting the yield of the thoroughly tested procedures used for processing of samples and their optimization parameters are discussed as well.

Keywords

bonecollagendatinggas proportional countingwine
Type
Marine & Other Methods
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 60 , Issue 4: 2nd Radiocarbon in the Environment Conference Debrecen, Hungary, July 3–7, 2017 Part 1 of 2 , August 2018 , pp. 1139 - 1149
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