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Additional comments on blood residue analysis in archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jeff D. Leach  and
Raymond P. Mauldin
Jeff D. Leach
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigaciones Arqueologicas, 140 N. Stevens, Brewhouse Tower, Suite 202, El Paso TX 79905, USA
Raymond P. Mauldin
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigaciones Arqueologicas, 140 N. Stevens, Brewhouse Tower, Suite 202, El Paso TX 79905, USA
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Abstract

A complement to a paper early in this year's volume of ANTIQUITY reports experience with searching for blood-residue traces with the services of a commercial testing laboratory.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 266 , December 1995 , pp. 1020 - 1022
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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