Studies in the Natural Radioactivity of Prehistoric Materials

Contents
Introduction / James E. Fitting
Part I
	Methodology / James E. Fitting
	Effect of Sample Preparation on Measurements of Natural Radioactivity / James E. Fitting
	The Effect of Particle Size on the Beta Activity of Three Samples of Mixed Composition from Research Cave, Calloway County, Missouri / Charles E. Cleland and Arthur J. Jelinek
	The Effect of Differential Charring on the Beta Activity of Bone from the Pecos River Valley, New Mexico / Charles E. Cleland
	Heat Alteration and Radioactivity in Fossil Bone / James E. Fitting
	Internal Variation in Radioactivity of a Standard Sample / James E. Fitting
Part II
	Radioactive Assay of Bone Material from the Riverside Cemetery, Menominee County, Michigan / Lewis R. Binford
	Radiometric Analysis of Bone and Soil Material from Lloyd's Rock Hole, Bedford County, Pennsylvania / Lewis R. Binford
	Analysis of Bone Material from the Medicine Crow Site (39 BF 2) Buffalo County, South Dakota / Lewis R. Binford
	Report on the Radiometric Analysis of Animal and Fish Bones from the Feeheley Site (20 SA 128) Saginaw County, Michigan / James E. Fitting
	The Beta Activity of Human Bone from the Feeheley and Andrews Sites, Saginaw County, Michigan / Charles E. Cleland
	Beta Activity of Animal Burials at the Juntunen Site (20 MK 1) on Bois Blanc Island / Charles E. Cleland
	Report on the Beta Activity of Five Bone Samples from the Palegawra Site in Iraq / Charles E. Cleland
	The Beta Activity of Four Bone Samples from Cueva Reclau, Gerona Province, Spain / Charles E. Cleland
	A Study of Natural Radioactivity in Osteological Materials from the Blackwater Draw Number 1 Locality, Roosevelt County, New Mexico / James E. Fitting
	A Gamma Ray Analysis of Fossil Bone from Blackwater Draw Number 1 Locality / James E. Fitting
	Addendum: Chemical Isolation of Radioactive Elements in Archaeological and Paleontological Material / James E. Fitting
	Summary / Arthur J. Jelinek
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