Defining pottery use and animal management at the Neolithic site of Bylany (Czech Republic)

Matlova, Veronika; Roffet‐Salque, Mélanie; Pavlů, Ivan; Kyselka, Jan; Sedlářová, Ivona; Filip, V.; Evershed, Richard P.

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.05.028

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“…; Evershed , ; Heron and Evershed ; Saboyainsta and Maubois ; Matlova et al . ). This property has been exploited in food science for microfiltration: porous ceramic fabrics with pore diameters < 1.4 μm are used as effective milk microfiltration devices, removing up to 99.75% of micro‐organisms responsible for the biochemical degradation of milk (Trouvé et al .…”

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“…; Correa‐Ascencio and Evershed ; Matlova et al . ) and none has specifically studied the properties of absorption and preservation of organic molecules detected in archaeological pottery using porosity analysis.…”

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“…; Volzone and Zagorodny ; Matlova et al . ), but the question of the influence of porosity on the preservation of organic molecules has not yet been considered in this way.…”

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“…Porosity of ceramic vessels has been investigated to study pottery manufacture and firing (Sanders 1973;Morariu et al 1977;Maniatis and Tsirtsoni 2002;Carvalho et al 2006;Sobott et al 2014;Volzone and Zagorodny 2014;Thér 2016;Gomart et al 2017), the physical properties related to pottery function (Rice 1987, 350-354;Moraru and Szendrei 2010;Lapp 2012), and resistance to degradation during burial (Bronitsky 1986, 225-231). However, although several authors mention relationships between porosity and organic products trapped in pottery walls, only a few have investigated porosity in this view (Namdar et al 2009;Correa-Ascencio and Evershed 2013;Matlova et al 2017) and none has specifically studied the properties of absorption and preservation of organic molecules detected in archaeological pottery using porosity analysis.…”

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“…Both techniques have the advantage of being non-destructive, but a quantitative study of the distribution of porosity requires specific data processing (imageanalysing software or mathematical treatments of the tomography data; Aprile et al 2014;Reedy et al 2014, Adrian De la Fuente andVera 2015;Thér 2016). Mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP), a technique specifically adapted for the quantitation of the porosity that allows both the measurement of the total volume of pores and an estimation of the pores' distribution depending on their diameter (Giesche 2006;Sobott et al 2014), was used to study the porosity of archaeological ceramics (Sanders 1973;Morariu et al 1977;Namdar et al 2009;Sobott et al 2014;Volzone and Zagorodny 2014;Matlova et al 2017), but the question of the influence of porosity on the preservation of organic molecules has not yet been considered in this way.…”

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Influence of porosity on lipid preservation in the wall of archaeological pottery

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Porosity of archaeological pottery is a key parameter used to assess its ability to trap lipids during the use of the pot and to preserve them over time. Mercury intrusion porosimetry and gas chromatography were used to study the distribution of porosity and the preservation of lipids in different chrono‐cultural contexts. The data obtained show that the porosity pattern, related to the raw materials and the savoir‐faire of the potters, influences the amount of lipids accumulated in the pottery. A significant overall porosity together with a high level of small pores is generally favourable for the preservation of lipids, but variations related to the environmental context are observed.

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“…; Volzone and Zagorodny ; Matlova et al . ), but the question of the influence of porosity on the preservation of organic molecules has not yet been considered in this way.…”

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Influence of porosity on lipid preservation in the wall of archaeological pottery

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Relationships Between Lipid Profiles and Use of Ethnographic Pottery: an Exploratory Study

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Regert

Mazuy

et al. 2022

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Investigating the organic content of archaeological pottery has largely focused on identifying food commodities, but their use and mode of processing still need to be thoroughly investigated. The present study aims to explore the diversity of organic residue absorption patterns, over a wider range of functions than previously studied by experimentation, by analysing ceramics still in use today. A field survey in Bedik Country, Senegal, where the use of pottery is still alive, was conducted to document the uses of ceramics and to interview potters and users of the vessels. As a preliminary study, nine ceramics whose use was recorded were investigated through 59 samples for their absorbed molecular profiles, lipid concentrations, and the preservation of triglycerides and C18 unsaturated fatty acids. The interpretations were first carried out as a blind test and then compared with the actual use. Lipid concentrations and molecular profiles indicated a diversity of contents, and the comparison of samples taken along the vertical transects of the vessels resulted in pottery function hypotheses that were broadly aligned with the actual uses. Cooking pots for fat-rich products were successfully identified, but the various documented patterns showed that lipid accumulation in ceramics is more complex than expected. Although caution is required to adopt this approach for archaeological pots, the vessel for fermenting plant products has been identified. Last, this work pointed out that ceramics can be used for a wider range of purposes than those usually considered for archaeological pottery, such as steaming or cooking non-food products.

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New insights into the subsistence strategies of the northwest frontier of the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BCE) through pottery lipid analysis

Sun

Han

Yang

2023

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Defining pottery use and animal management at the Neolithic site of Bylany (Czech Republic)

Cited by 24 publications

References 52 publications

Influence of porosity on lipid preservation in the wall of archaeological pottery

Influence of porosity on lipid preservation in the wall of archaeological pottery

Relationships Between Lipid Profiles and Use of Ethnographic Pottery: an Exploratory Study

New insights into the subsistence strategies of the northwest frontier of the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BCE) through pottery lipid analysis

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