I took the same caloium content as I did for the UCIA results,
so that's where the source of errcr may be.
‘The calcium con-
tent of Asari's saxples aay be considerably higher.
SCICMON:
There's a tenfold difference,
One guy would have a skeleton
and the cther wouldn't,
ERTEGER :
But what throve some reliability on proto-historic samples is
the one acdern-day sample that he quotes,
He has a figure cf
1860 parts per willicn in this relatively scdern sample of
strontium, whereas the UCl4 figures are 1& parte per aillion
for the fetal samples ami 240 fcr the adult samples.
factor is almost ten percentage cf calcium content,
aeen the criginal paper,
abstracts.
The
ZT haven't
These are figures taken froa ten
We're getting copies cf these papers by Asari from
the Berkeley Library. These results were published in the
Journal of the Chemical Society of Japan, ani the holdings of
a relatively amall country,
SOLUMON:
Japan is one of the places included in cur liat of places tc
sample, but cf course this dcean't sean that in Chins the
figure asy net be aix tines higher than in Japan,
KRIEGER s
It say be interesting to check the strontium caloiua ratic in
rice,
The Japanese diet is probably high in rice and very low
in peretein,
KUIP:
I think there are good physical chemical reason for believing
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