Yotam Asscher

TL;DR: The presence of surprisingly large amounts of mineral particles located inside membrane-delineated vesicles in the bone forming tissue between the blood vessels and the forming bone surface leads to the conclusion that important components of the bone mineralization pathways in rapidly forming chicken bone are dense phase mineral particles bound within membranes.

TL;DR: The infrared peak width at 604 cm−1 can be effectively used to assess both the average crystallite size and structural carbonate content of bioapatite, thus establishing a universal calibration curve of practical use.

TL;DR: In this article, an infrared spectrometry grinding curve approach is adapted to carbonate hydroxyapatites and the splitting factor is plotted against the full width at half height of the strong phosphate absorption peak as a function of increased grinding.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed 14 C samples from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age transition at Qubur el-Walaydah and used a Bayesian model that incorporated the stratigraphic information.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a variety of microarchaeological techniques to improve their understanding of the stratigraphy, and to ensure that the locations with datable short-lived materials were only derived from primary contexts, which could be related directly to the associated material culture.