PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Matt Sponheimer
AU  - Christina M. Ryder
AU  - Helen Fewlass
AU  - Erin K. Smith
AU  - William J. Pestle
AU  - Sahra Talamo
TI  - Saving Old Bones: a non-destructive method for bone collagen prescreening
AID  - 10.1101/653212
DP  - 2019 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 653212
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/05/31/653212.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/05/31/653212.full
AB  - Bone collagen is an important material for radiocarbon, paleodietary, and paleoproteomic analyses, but it degrades over time. Various methods have been employed to prescreen bone for collagen preservation, but these are often destructive and/or require exportation for analysis. Here we show that near-infrared spectroscopy can be used to determine bone collagen content quickly and non-destructively on site.r