Investigation of mammoth remains using the neutron activation analysis at the Training Reactor VR-1

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68081758:_____/20:00534973

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2020.109292" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2020.109292</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2020.109292" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.apradiso.2020.109292</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Investigation of mammoth remains using the neutron activation analysis at the Training Reactor VR-1

Original language description

At the time when the importance of the interdisciplinary research increases, the nuclear analytical techniques supported by the small research reactors represent a useful tool for investigation of human society, culture, history etc. The historical, archaeological, and palaeontological samples and objects of cultural heritage can be easily studied using the radioanalytical methods such as the neutron activation analysis. This paper deals with the detailed investigation of fragments of mammoth remains from the Mid-Upper Palaeolithic site Pavlov VI by means of the instrumental neutron activation analysis at the Training Reactor VR-1 of the Czech Technical University in Prague. Six mammoth hard tissue samples (fragments of bones, tusk, and molar) from the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences were irradiated in the dry vertical irradiation channel with thermal neutron field (φ=2x109cm-2s-1) at maximum reactor power (80 W). The activated mammoth samples were analysed employing the nuclear γ-spectrometry and semiconductor HPGe detector, and the composition of the remains was determined (qualitative and quantitative analysis). The presence of Na, Cl, K, As, Fe, Sr, Mn, Br, I, Ba, and U was revealed in studied mammoth samples. Based on obtained production rates, the concentrations of Fe, Sr, Na, K, As, and U were determined. The results presented in this paper show clearly that the low-power Training Reactor VR-1 is excellent tool for the neutron activation analysis experiments within the interdisciplinary research and can provide experimental data important for archaeologists and palaeontologists.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10301 - Atomic, molecular and chemical physics (physics of atoms and molecules including collision, interaction with radiation, magnetic resonances, Mössbauer effect)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

ISSN

0969-8043

e-ISSN

1872-9800

Volume of the periodical

166

Issue of the periodical within the volume

109292

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000589093400005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85089540949