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Microbial bioerosion: testing a new technique to differentiate stillborn, perinatal, and neonatal infants in archaeological samples.

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First reported by Carl Wedl in 1864, microbial bioerosion is one of the most common and destructive taphonomic processes to act on skeletal material within the archaeological record. It refers to when microbes such as fungi, cyanobacteria, and bacteria breakdown mineralised hydroxyapatite to access bone collagen. Significantly lower prevalence rates for bacterial bioerosion in the bones of huma...
Display date:
2020
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Tonga
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Scholarly text
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Otago University Research Archive
Contributors:
Halcrow, Siân
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University of Otago
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University of Otago
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