Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Morphological Characterisation of Red Blood Cells in Human Bloodstains on Stone: A Systematical SEM Study
AU  - Hortolà P
Y1  - 2001
VL  - 39
IS  - 2-3
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 227
EP  - 232
KW  - Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
KW  - Organic residues
KW  - Bloodstains
KW  - Haemotaphonomy
KW  - Stone tools
KW  - Prehistory
KW  - Experimental archaeology
N2  - 
N2  - Mammalian erythrocytes or red blood cells (RBC) have been previously reported as forming part of residues on prehistoric implements. On the basis of the Principle of Actualism, several thick smears of human blood were obtained on chert. After increasing lengths of storage time span (1-36 months), the bloodstains were micromorphologically studied via scanning electron microscopy. Results revealed, in all the smears, the presence of an erythrocyte acme-zone with packed RBC, as well as negative replicas and moon-like shapes. Morphologies were found to be time-independent, and furthermore those erythrocyte acme-zones with packed RBC to be thick-bloodstain characteristic. 
ER  -