Bone Dating

Any of a serious of methods of analyzing bone samples, especially by measuring fluorine, uranium, nitrogen - also called the FUN technique - or by using stratigraphy. Human remains may be compared with animal bone or fossils found in the same strata. Relative dates may be obtained form time-related chemical changes which occur in bone, especially in fluorine, uranium, and nitrogen. Still, the most commonly used is radiocarbon dating because both the collagen and mineral components of bone are dateable.

Bone may be dated in a number of ways. The most commonly used is radiocarbon dating: both the collagen and mineral components of bone are dateable. Recently a number of bone samples have been dated by a uranium series method. Relative dates may be obtained from time-related chemical changes which occur in bone after burial. In particular, these include fluorine