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Non-Destructive Trace Element Analysis Of Burials From Moho Cay, Belize, April Alyce Walton
Non-Destructive Trace Element Analysis Of Burials From Moho Cay, Belize, April Alyce Walton
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The study of skeletal material macroscopically and microscopically can yield a plethora of information about interments’ lives. Studying bones at an elemental level can provide further details regarding dietary habits, residency, and migration patterns, which are important areas of research for Maya archaeology. Currently, research on bone composition is conducted through destructive methods, especially for archaeological bone. The use of non-destructive methods for testing bone composition such as with a portable x-ray fluorescence machine can also be suitable for the study of archaeological bone. This study has two main goals: to understand the interments' lives through strontium trace element and …