Bone Collagen Quality Indicators for Palaeodietary and Radiocarbon Measurements

Klinken, G. J. Van

doi:10.1006/jasc.1998.0385

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“…In addition, two 14 C-AMS dates were obtained on bone samples from the newly discovered Tolbor 21 site , Gladyshev et al, 2013. Samples were selected for dating when showing a satisfying amount of collagen yield (>1%) (Ambrose, 1990,Weber et al, 2005Hublin et al, 2012) and C:N between 2.9 and 3.5 (Klinken, 1999). The samples were pretreated at MPI-EVA Leipzig using the method described in Talamo and Richards (2011).…”

Section: Chronologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The open-air site of Tolbor 16 (Northern Mongolia): Preliminary results and perspectives

Zwyns

Gladyshev

Gunchinsuren

et al. 2014

Quaternary International

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Section: Chronologymentioning

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The open-air site of Tolbor 16 (Northern Mongolia): Preliminary results and perspectives

Zwyns

Gladyshev

Gunchinsuren

et al. 2014

Quaternary International

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“…Collagen from bones and teeth is the preferred substrate for carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis, because it provides accepted quality indicators of its isotope integrity and it is the only considerable nitrogen source from skeletal remains (De Niro, 1985;Van Klinken, 1999). Several characteristics of collagen must be considered when proceeding with dietary reconstruction.…”

Section: Stable Isotopes and Palaeodietary Reconstructionsmentioning

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Neanderthal diets in central and southeastern Mediterranean Iberia

Salazar‐García

Power

Serra³

et al. 2013

Quaternary International

112

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a b s t r a c tDuring recent decades, Neanderthal diet has been a major research topic in palaeoanthropology. This has been accelerated by the maturation of different techniques, which have produced a plethora of new information. However, this proliferation of data has led to confusing and contradictory results. Furthermore, most of the ecological dietary studies have been carried out on specimens drawn from different time periods and regions, almost exclusively those characterized by cold, open environmental conditions. Subsistence models based on these fragmentary data have been applied to Neanderthals living in a variety of different regions and environments, even though their dietary strategies may have been as variable as regions they inhabited. In this paper we integrate different dietary approaches (studies of the zooarchaeology, stable isotopes and plant remains) from the central and southeastern Mediterranean coast of Iberia in order to develop a broader and more complex picture of Neanderthal diet in different Mediterranean environmental conditions. Our results suggest that there may have been some minor dietary variation due to climatic or environmental differences, but that Neanderthal diet focussed on large terrestrial game, supplemented by plant foods when these were available.Ó 2013 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved. Neanderthal dietary ecologyThe dietary behaviours of Neanderthals and the relationship between their diet and their social organization, technological abilities, and even their eventual disappearance, have been hotly debated in the anthropological literature. Examining the diets of Neanderthals requires the synthesis of data that have been collected by numerous researchers over the last 150 years. In many cases, the differences between Neanderthal and early modern human diets have been emphasized, at the expense of cogent discussion of the variation within each group. Early modern humans lived in a wide variety of environmental contexts and likely pursued a variety of behaviours throughout this range of environments. The exclusively Eurasian distribution of Neanderthals did not include as many environments, but neither was it the exclusively cold Arctic climate that many have supposed it to be. A more detailed examination of the Neanderthal range and the effects of shifting global climates reveals that this group would have been exposed to a diverse range of environments (Hoffecker, 2009;MacDonald et al., 2009). Just as modern human dietary behaviour likely varied with environments, so, too, can we predict that Neanderthals had different diets in different environments.Our understanding of the diets of Neanderthals comes from three main lines of evidence. The first is the study of the human remains themselves, including the isotope signal recorded in their bones, the microwear on their teeth, and how factors of their lifehistory are related to diet. The second line of evidence includes the study of the remains of their food, in the form of animal and plant remains preserved ...

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“…When they do, it is usual that they apply a pretreatment protocol to extract what is often termed ''Longin collagen'' (Longin, 1971). Put simply, 'collagen' refers to the insoluble residue remaining after decalcification of the bone, unrelated to collagen in the strict biologically defined sense of the word (van Klinken, 1999). Longin (1971) suggested the further solubilisation of the collagen to gelatin, thereby removing insoluble residues.…”

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“…Van Klinken (1999) has shown that there are three principal influences on whether 14 C determinations of bone can be accepted as reliable: first, the extent to which the bone is diagenetically degraded; second, the extent to which bone has been contaminated with exogenous carbon; third, the type of method applied to pretreat and extract collagen from the bone itself. In addition to these influences, there are potentially significant problems with dating human bone where it can be shown, using stable isotopes, that there is a reservoir effect derived from the consumption of protein from non-equilibrium sources of carbon.…”

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AMS radiocarbon dating of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic bone in the British Isles: improved reliability using ultrafiltration

Jacobi

Higham

Ramsey

2006

J Quaternary Science

138

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Recent research at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU) has shown that ultrafiltration of gelatin from archaeological bone can, in many instances, remove low molecular weight contaminants. These can sometimes be of a different radiocarbon age and, unless removed, may severely influence results, particularly when dating bones greater than two to three half-lives of 14 C. In this study this methodology is applied to samples of Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic age from the British Isles. In many instances the results of redating invite serious reconsideration of the chronology for these periods.

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Bone Collagen Quality Indicators for Palaeodietary and Radiocarbon Measurements

Cited by 1,379 publications

References 16 publications

The open-air site of Tolbor 16 (Northern Mongolia): Preliminary results and perspectives

The open-air site of Tolbor 16 (Northern Mongolia): Preliminary results and perspectives

Neanderthal diets in central and southeastern Mediterranean Iberia

AMS radiocarbon dating of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic bone in the British Isles: improved reliability using ultrafiltration

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