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Particular features of the application of IR reflection spectroscopy methods in studies in archeology and paleontology

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We have considered an optical model of a porous rough surface with optical properties of objects (bone, flint) that are typical of archeology and paleontology. We have formulated an approach that makes it possible to perform mathematical processing of the IR reflection spectra of objects of this kind using standard algorithms and determine criteria that ensure obtaining reliable information on objects with a rough surface in the course of interpretation of frequencies in their IR reflection spectra. The potential of the approach has been demonstrated using as an example an investigation by the IR Fourier-transform reflection spectroscopy of mineralization processes of mammoth tusks from two paleolithic sites (14000 and 16000 BCE) located by the town of Yudinovo, Bryansk oblast, Russia.

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  2. Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.M. Zolotarev, G.A. Khlopachev, 2013, published in Optika i Spektroskopiya, 2013, Vol. 114, No. 6, pp. 1036–1050.

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Zolotarev, V.M., Khlopachev, G.A. Particular features of the application of IR reflection spectroscopy methods in studies in archeology and paleontology. Opt. Spectrosc. 114, 946–960 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X13040231

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