Research Article
Purple Staining of Archaeological Human Bone: An Investigation of Probable Cause and Implications for Other Tissues and Artifacts
Figure 8
Autofluorescence imagery for normal (a) and purple stained (b) samples. The lighter greenish areas in the purple specimen are trabecular voids. The normal bone specimen appears to contain some residual collagen. There appears to be no or very little residual collagen in the purple stained sample.
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