Organic Residue Analysis and the First Uses of Pottery in the Ancient Middle East

Gregg, Michael W.

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“…Organic residue analysis was carried out on a yellowish-brown resinous-looking material that was preserved on the lip of the Godin Tepe jar. A Feigl spot test (see below) identified the presence of oxalate and likely calcium oxalate, a salt of oxalic acid, principal component of beerstone as well as edible plants such as spinach and rhubarb (Michel et al, 1993;Hornsey, 2003;Gregg, 2009). Beerstone is a precipitate, which tends to settle on the surface of processing and storage vessels used in the brewing of beer.…”

Section: Archaeological Evidence For Beer Production and Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revealing invisible brews: A new approach to the chemical identification of ancient beer

Perruchini

Glatz

Hald

et al. 2018

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Section: Archaeological Evidence For Beer Production and Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revealing invisible brews: A new approach to the chemical identification of ancient beer

Perruchini

Glatz

Hald

et al. 2018

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…J. Jones, 2018;Kenoyer, Price, & Burton, 2013;Kutterer & Uerpmann, 2012;Riehl, Pustovoytov, Weippert, Klett, & Hole, 2014;Valentine et al, 2015). Residue analysis of ceramics from new excavations, and also museum collections, is also now being attempted (Craig et al, 2013;Gregg, 2010;Gregg, Banning, Gibbs, & Slater, 2009).…”

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20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia

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The Fertile Crescent, its hilly flanks and surrounding drylands has been a critical region for studying how climate has influenced societal change, and this review focuses on the region over the last 20,000 years. The complex social, economic, and environmental landscapes in the region today are not new phenomena and understanding their interactions requires a nuanced, multidisciplinary understanding of the past. This review builds on a history of collaboration between the social and natural palaeoscience disciplines. We provide a multidisciplinary, multiscalar perspective on the relevance of past climate, environmental, and archaeological research in assessing present day vulnerabilities and risks for the populations of southwest Asia. We discuss the complexity of palaeoclimatic data interpretation, particularly in relation to hydrology, and provide an overview of key time periods of palaeoclimatic interest. We discuss the critical role that vegetation plays in the human–climate–environment nexus and discuss the implications of the available palaeoclimate and archaeological data, and their interpretation, for palaeonarratives of the region, both climatically and socially. We also provide an overview of how modelling can improve our understanding of past climate impacts and associated change in risk to societies. We conclude by looking to future work, and identify themes of “scale” and “seasonality” as still requiring further focus. We suggest that by appreciating a given locale's place in the regional hydroscape, be it an archaeological site or palaeoenvironmental archive, more robust links to climate can be made where appropriate and interpretations drawn will demand the resolution of factors acting across multiple scales. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Water as Imagined and Represented Science of Water > Water and Environmental Change Water and Life > Nature of Freshwater Ecosystems

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“…Instead, evidence indicated the presence of adipose fats from ruminants and pigs. Gregg (2010) examined early pottery residues from 22 sites in the Near East, including the southern Levant, Upper Mesopotamia and the Zagros. Unlike Evershed et al (2008), he did not find any clear evidence for milk fats.…”

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“…GC-MS and GC-c-IRMS analyses of Late Neolithic pottery from al-Basatîn in northern Jordan (Gibbs et al 2010;Kadowaki et al 2008) indicate the use of ruminant or porcine adipose fats (Gregg et al 2009). At two sites in western Iran, Ali Kosh and Chageh Sefid, Gregg (2010) found markers indicating the presence of bitumen. This may have been applied to the pots as a sealant or the pots could have been used to collect or transport this material, suggesting that not all early pots were used to hold foodstuffs.…”

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Pottery Invention and Innovation in East Asia and the Near East

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2015

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The invention of ceramic objects made from fire-hardened clay represents an important and early step in the development of pyrotechnology. This paper examines pottery invention and innovation by hunter-gatherers in East Asia and by farmers in the Near East to examine how prehistoric communities in different socio-economic systems came to rely heavily on fired-clay containers. Drawing on advances in archaeological science, it examines from a comparative perspective early pottery's broader entanglements related to technology and use and argues that early pottery production by farmers in the Near East can be viewed as a process of innovation in a longer tradition of container technology, while the first hunter-gatherer pottery production in East Asia provides a better case for independent invention.

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Organic Residue Analysis and the First Uses of Pottery in the Ancient Middle East

Cited by 14 publications

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Revealing invisible brews: A new approach to the chemical identification of ancient beer

Revealing invisible brews: A new approach to the chemical identification of ancient beer

20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia

Pottery Invention and Innovation in East Asia and the Near East

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