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Bone diagenesis: an overview of processes
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This overview is a summary of the state of understanding of processes and states in bone diagenesis, as seen from a chemical perspective. It deals with the significance and usefulness of the measurements of ‘diagenetic parameters’—that is, of measures of diagenetic alteration—and of the theories of physico–chemical processes which are considered to underlie the measured changes. In many ways these two aspects are seen to come together quite well, and some progress has been made in relating different burial environments to the observations of alteration. Such a framework also allows us to ask more penetrating questions, such as how characteristic differences in diagenetic alteration might arise, and how the pre–burial environment might influence the eventual course of diagenesis.
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Bone hydroxyapatite is susceptible to strontium uptake from soil and water in the burial environment, so bone samples can artificially show local soil or fertilizer values rather than a non-local dietary catchment.
“Since bone hydroxyapatite is susceptible to strontium uptake from soil and water in the burial environment, bone samples can artificially show local soil or fertilizer values rather than the values of a non-local dietary catchment”
From An archaeological strontium isoscape for the prehistoric andes: understanding population mobility through a geostatistical meta-analysis of archaeological 87Sr/86Sr values from humans, animals, and artifacts (2020) · cites this paper as Hedges, 2002
In “Uptake of groundwater solutes” (page unavailable), Hedges says strontium from groundwater can enter bone hydroxyapatite during burial and accumulate through recrystallization. The passage does not establish that bone samples will show local soil or fertilizer values rather than values from a non-local dietary catchment; it says the accumulated strontium may be unrelated to equilibrium with groundwater concentration. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Hedges, R. E. M.
- Venue
- Archaeometry
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2002-08
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 319-328
- ISSN
- 0003-813X
- 1475-4754
- Cited by
- 598
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- 0
- Language
- en
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