[18] A. Gourrier, O. Bunk, K. Müller and I. Reiche (2011). Artificially heated bone at low temperatures: a quantitative scanning-small-angle X-ray scattering imaging study of the mineral particle size. ArcheoSciences, 35, 191-199.
Abstract:
The ultrastructure of bovine femoral bone
artificially heated at low temperatures (< 300 °C) is
investigated by means of synchrotron quantitative scanning-SAXS
imaging. Significant changes in the distribution of particle size are
observed upon heating. On average, an exponential particle growth is
measured with increasing temperature independently of the tissue
histology. Additionally, the heating process induces a broader
dispersion in the particle size which, in turn, seems to be dependent
on the bone microstructure. Those parameters could therefore be used as
markers in the characterization of archaeological bone presenting
traces of heating.
