Dairying in antiquity. I. Evidence from absorbed lipid residues dating to the British Iron Age

Copley, Mark S.; Berstan, Robert; Dudd, Stephanie N.; Straker, Vanessa; Payne, Sebastian; Evershed, Richard P.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2004.07.004

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“…This is due to the processes of degradation and dissolution that occur during burial and, in some cases, alteration of the fats during the lifetime of the vessel, for example during cooking. These processes tend to deplete diagnostic biomarker compounds that are characteristic of particular fats (3)(4)(5)(63)(64)(65)(66)(67) preventing the unique identification of degraded fatty material.…”

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“…Modern reference fats fall within well-defined areas on a scatter plot of δ 13 C 18:0 against δ 13 C 16:0 , reflecting the different metabolic processes by which different organisms synthesize these two acids (5,32,68). Results can also be plotted as ∆ 13 C vs δ 13 C 16:0 (where ∆ 13 C = δ 13 C 18:0 -δ 13 C 16:0 ), a method which eliminates minor local variations in isotopic values by using ∆ 13 C, while still incorporating the variations in δ 13 C 16:0 produced by the presence of marine fats or C 4 plants (67). Isotopic analysis has proved to be a very powerful tool for identifying individual fats, in particular dairy fats, even within mixtures.…”

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Organic Residues in Archaeology: The Highs and Lows of Recent Research

Steele

2013

ACS Symposium Series

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The analysis of organic residues from archaeological materials has become increasingly important to our understanding of ancient diet, trade and technology. Residues from diverse contexts have been retrieved and analysed from the remains of food, medicine and cosmetics to hafting material on stone arrowheads, pitch and tar from shipwrecks, and ancient manure from soils. Research has brought many advances in our understanding of archaeological, organic residues over the past two decades. Some have enabled very specific and detailed interpretations of materials preserved in the archaeological record. However there are still areas where we know very little, like the mechanisms at work during the formation and preservation of residues, and areas where each advance produces more questions rather than answers, as in the identification of degraded fats. This chapter will discuss some of the significant achievements in the field over the past decade and the ongoing challenges for research in this area.1341280_File000001_20903114.docPrinted 7/19/2013 2

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Section: Identification Of Fatty Materialsmentioning

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Organic Residues in Archaeology: The Highs and Lows of Recent Research

Steele

2013

ACS Symposium Series

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“…Dudd and Evershed 1998;Copley et al 2005a). Recent developments in the detection of archaeological proteins have allowed the identification of milk proteins to species in both organic residues and human dental calculus (e.g.…”

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Calving seasonality at Pool, Orkney during the first millennium AD: an investigation using intra-tooth isotope ratio analysis of cattle molar enamel

Towers

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Montgomery

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Environmental Archaeology

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(2016) 'Calving seasonality at Pool, Orkney during the rst millennium AD : an investigation using intra-tooth isotope ratio analysis of cattle molar enamel.', Environmental archaeology., 22 (1). pp. 40-55. Further information on publisher's website: Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. IntroductionIn order to gain an understanding of the economic basis of prehistoric communities, the identification of dairying is essential, particularly in northwest Europe, where a high degree of lactose tolerance suggests that fresh milk has long been a significant dietary component. Currently, prehistoric dairying is investigated using a variety of techniques.The two techniques that have been most widely applied are the examination of faunal remains and compound-specific stable isotope analysis of lipids in pottery residues.Examination of faunal remains to determine age-at-death slaughter patterns (mortality profiles) and female to male ratios (Higham 1968;Payne 1973) allows the economic role of a particular species (e.g. for meat, wool, milk or traction) to be inferred (e.g.Legge 1981), whilst lipid analysis is effective at identifying the presence of milk products in the archaeological record (e.g. Dudd and Evershed 1998;Copley et al. 2005a). Recent developments in the detection of archaeological proteins have allowed the identification of milk proteins to species in both organic residues and human dental calculus (e.g. Hong et al. 2012;Buckley et al. 2013; Warinner et al. 2014).An additional approach to identify cattle (Bos taurus) dairying in prehistoric communities is explored in this paper: a possible relationship between calving seasonality, i.e. the distribution of births throughout the year, and economic focus. For economies focussed on the year-round production of fresh milk as a staple food product, it has been postulated that multiple-season calving would have been necessary (Towers et al. 2011;Balasse et al. 2012a;Gron et al. 2015). In contrast, a strategy of singleseason calving, probably in spring, may have been favoured for meat-based economies or economies focussed on storable milk products. Increasingly, birth seasonality of domestic herbivores has been investigated using intra-tooth isotope ratio analysis of molar enamel (e.g. Balasse et al. 2003;Balasse and Tresset 2007;Blaise and Balasse 2011;Towers et al. 2011;Balasse et al. 2012a;Balasse et al. 2012b;Tornero et al. 2013;Towers et al. 2014;Buchan et al. 2015;Gron et al. 2015).Each of the aforementioned techniques to identify p...

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“…To se posebno odnosi na istraživanja laktolipida (na primer Craig et al 2005;Copley et al 2005aCopley et al , 2005bCopley et al , 2005c, koja su pokazala da je mleko korišćeno u ishrani još od rane praistorije, ili širenja zajednica s pastoralnom ekonomijom u različitim ekološkim nišama u vreme neolitske revolucije (Ethier et al 2017). Iako su nesumnjivo važna, fokus ovih istraživanja je, međutim, veoma udaljen od keramičkih studija: u njima je keramika samo izvor podataka, ali ne i predmet istraživanja.…”

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Pottery Studies and Archaeometry: Between Scientific Analyses and Archaeological Interpretation

Vuković

2017

EAP / IEA

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Keramičke studije i arheometrija: između analiza prirodnih nauka i arheološke interpretacije * Apstrakt: U radu su razmotreni odnos između studija keramike i primene metoda prirodnih nauka u keramologiji kroz istoriju discipline, postojanje nerazumevanja između stručnjaka prirodnih nauka i arheologa i njegovim posledicama, kao i ograničenja metoda prirodnih nauka u odgovoru na arheološke probleme. Ukazano je na potrebu za čvršćim interdisciplinarnim istraživanjima, sa precizno definisanim teorijskim okvirom i jasno formulisanim istraživačkim pitanjima i hipotezama.Ključne reči: arheometrija, keramika, istorija discipline, arheološka interpretacija Od samih početaka arheologije keramika je prepoznata kao vrsta nalaza koja je hronološki osetljiva i stoga pogodna za datovanje, formiranje relativno-hronoloških šema i razmatranje kulturne pripadnosti, migracija ili širenja kulturnih uticaja. Razvojem keramičkih studija ubrzo je sa ovih kulturno-istorijskih pozicija u proučavanje keramike uveden čitav niz tema, pa one danas uključuju razmatranje ekonomije, stila, identiteta, funkcije itd. (detaljnije u: Vuković, u štampi). Usložnjavanju i proširivanju tema u keramologiji svakako je doprinela i primena metoda prirodnih nauka, posebno zahvaljujući njihovom ubrzanom razvoju tokom druge polovine XX veka. Istovremeno, u arheologiji uopšte, pa i u okviru studija keramike, to je za posledicu imalo i pojavu tenzija i nerazumevanja između zagovornika "tvrde" nauke koji smatraju da samo ona vodi objektivnom saznanju i onih koji u tome vide dehumanizaciju arheologije (cf. * Ovaj članak je rezultat rada na projektu 177012 koji finansira Ministarstvo prosvete, nauke i tehnološkog razvoja Republike Srbije. On predstavlja dopunjenu i proširenu verziju istoimenog saopštenja s konferencije "Srpska arheologija između teorije i činjenica V -Arheologija između artefakata i ekofakata", održane 1-2. aprila 2017. godine na Filozofskom fakultetu u Beogradu.

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Dairying in antiquity. I. Evidence from absorbed lipid residues dating to the British Iron Age

Cited by 97 publications

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Organic Residues in Archaeology: The Highs and Lows of Recent Research

Organic Residues in Archaeology: The Highs and Lows of Recent Research

Calving seasonality at Pool, Orkney during the first millennium AD: an investigation using intra-tooth isotope ratio analysis of cattle molar enamel

Pottery Studies and Archaeometry: Between Scientific Analyses and Archaeological Interpretation

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