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On human blood, rock art and calcium oxalate: further studies on organic carbon content and radiocarbon age of materials relating to Australian rock art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Richard Gillespie
Richard Gillespie*
Affiliation:
Dizzy Heights, Ripps Road, Stokers Siding NSW 2484, Australia. E-mail: [email protected]
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Minute biological traces, with their prospect of recovering even ancient DNA, are the most attractive of archaeological materials to work with. This supplementary report on field studies of rock-art first published in ANTIQUITY further explores how these studies may in truth be carried out.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 272 , June 1997 , pp. 430 - 437
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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