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 WCE ARCHIVES