PREFACE

The three papers which follow are translated from the Journal of

the Anthropological Society of Japan, Each is an important contribution

to the problem of relative dating in archaeology by means of chemical analysis
of osseous materials. For references and summaries of methods and results

of the fluorine dating method see Oakley (1951) and Wiener, Oakley and Clark
(1953). A related method involving relative dating based upon quantitative

uptake or release of inorganic and organic bone constituents is described in
Cook (1951), Cook and Heizer (1953a, 1953b), and Heizer and Cook (1956). All
of the articles cited contain extensive bibliographic references.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cook, S.F.

1951      The fossilisation of human bone:  calcium, phosphate, and

carbonate. University of California Phblications in American
Archaeology and Ethnology 40, No0 6:263-280. Berkeley.

Cook, S.F. and R.F. Heizer

1953      The present status of chemical methods for dating prehistoric

bone. American Antiquity 18, No, 4:354-358. Salt Lake City.
1956      Archaeological dating by chemical analysis of bone. South-

western Journal of Anthropology 9, No. 2:231-238, Albuquerque.

Heiser, R.F. and S.F. Cook

1956      Some aspects of the quantitative approach in archaeology.

Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 12, No. 3:229-248,
Albuquerque,
Oakley, K.P.

1951      The fluorine-dating method. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology

5 (for 1949) :44-54, Viking Fund. New York.

Weiner, J.S., K.?. Oakley and W.BE LeGros Clark

1953      The solution of the Piltdown problem. Bulletin of the

British Museum (Natural History), Geology 2, No. 3:141-146.
London.

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