Further Reading

De Torres T, Ortiz JE, Garcia MJ, et al. (2001) Geochemical Evolution of amino acids in dentine of Pleistocene bears. Chirality 13: 517-521.

Hare PE, von Endt DW, and Kokis JE (1997) Protein and amino acid diagenesis dating. In: Taylor RE and Aitken MJ (eds.) Chronometric Dating in Archaeology, pp. 261-296. New York: Plenum Press.

Hearty PJ, Miller GH, Stearns CE, and Szabo BJ (1986) Amino-stratigraphy of quaternary shorelines in the Mediterranean basin. Geological Society of America Bulletin 97: 850-858.

Miller GH, Beaumont PB, Deacon HJ, Brooks AS, Hare PE, and Jull AJT (1999) Earliest modern humans in southern Africa dated by isoleucine epimerization in ostrich eggshell. Quaternary Science Reviews 18: 1537-1548.

Miller GH and Brigham-Grette J (1989) Amino acid geochronology: Resolution and precision in carbonate fossils. Quaternary International 1: 111-128.

Miller GH, Magee JW, Johnston BJ, et al. (1997a) Pleistocene extinction of Genyornis newtoni: Human impact on the Australian megafauna. Science 283: 205-208.

Miller GH, Magee JW, and Jull AJT (1997b) Low-latitude glacial cooling in the Southern Hemisphere from amino acids in emu eggshells. Nature 385: 241-244.

Rutter NW and Blackwell B (1996) Amino acid racemization dating. In: Rutter NW and Catto NR (eds.) Pleistocene Dating Methods: Problems and Applications, pp. 125-166. Geotext 2, Ottawa: Geological Association of Canada.

Wehmiller JF and Miller GH (2000) Aminostratigraphic dating methods in Quaternary geology. In: Noller JS, Sowers JM, and LettisWR (eds.) Quaternary GeochronologyMethodsandAppli-cations, pp. 115-120. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union.