The search for ancient hair: a scientific approach to the probabilities and recovery of unattached hair in archaeological sites

A recent upsurge exists of archaeologists using ancient hair as a research tool, with new uses of this previously discarded archaeological material being introduced annually. Human hair deteriorates extremely slowly, and since the average modern human sheds approximately one hundred hairs per day, t...

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Main Author: Turner-Pearson, Katherine
Other Authors: Bryant, Vaughn M.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1417
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1417