A5029523440- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Historical and Archaeological Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Digestive system and related health
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
- Bee Products Chemical Analysis
- Plant and animal studies
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Historical Studies of British Isles
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Forensic Fingerprint Detection Methods
- Polyamine Metabolism and Applications
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
University of Bristol
2015-2024
Cabot (United States)
2013-2020
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
2020
At Bristol
2020
National Museums Scotland
2014-2018
Society of Antiquaries
2018
Oxford Archaeology
2018
Jane Street (United States)
2018
The appearance of farming, from its inception in the Near East around 12 000 years ago, finally reached northwestern extremes Europe by fourth millennium BC or shortly thereafter. Various models have been invoked to explain Neolithization northern Europe; however, resolving these different scenarios has proved problematic due poor faunal preservation and lack specificity achievable for commonly applied proxies. Here, we present new multi-proxy evidence, which qualitatively quantitatively...
The investigation of organic residues associated with archaeological pottery using modern analytical chemical methods began in the 1970s. It was recognised early on that analysis lipids (i.e. fats, waxes and resins) preserved surface or fabric single potsherds, representative vessels, a powerful method for ascertaining use, high degree specificity. Subsequent developments saw significant change scale, studies often involving lipid analyses tens to hundreds potsherds per assemblage, providing...
The conventional 'Neolithic package' comprised animals and plants originally domesticated in the Near East. As farming spread on a generally northwest trajectory across Europe, early pastoralists would have been faced with challenge of making viable regions which organisms were poorly adapted to providing optimal yields or even surviving. Hence, it has long debated whether Neolithic economies ever established at modern limits agriculture. Here, we examine food residues pottery, testing...
The uptake of cereal agriculture in the Neolithic is one most important processes later human prehistory. However, many parts Europe, early evidence from pollen or macrofossils scarce inconclusive, and there are considerable ambiguities about timing, intensity mode transition to these regions. An alternative approach organic residue analysis, a technique that targets lipids preserved walls unglazed ceramic pots used for storage processing foodstuffs. By analysing molecular isotopic...
Chemical analyses of carbonized and absorbed organic residues from archaeological ceramic cooking vessels can provide a unique window into the culinary cultures ancient people, resource use, environmental effects by identifying ingredients used in meals. However, it remains uncertain whether recovered represent only final foodstuffs prepared or are accumulation various events within same vessel. To assess this, we cooked seven mixtures C3 C4 unglazed pots once per week for one year, then...
The spread of early farming across Europe from its origins in Southwest Asia was a culturally transformative process which took place over millennia. Within regions, the pace transition probably related to particular climatic and environmental conditions encountered, as well nature localized hunter–gatherer farmer interactions. establishment interior Balkans represents first movement Asian livestock beyond their natural range, widespread evidence now exists for pottery being used extensively...
The Romans brought the mortarium to Britain in first century AD, and there has long been speculation on its actual purpose. Using analysis of residues trapped walls these ‘kitchen blenders’ comparing them with Iron Age Roman cooking pots, authors show that it wasn't diet changed — just method preparing certain products: plants were being ground as well cooked pot. As plants, mortars contained animal fats, including dairy products. question remains, however, is why natural products mixed...
Traces of lipids, absorbed and preserved for millennia within the inorganic matrix ceramic vessels, act as molecular fossils provide manifold information about past people's subsistence, diet, rituals. It is widely assumed that lipids become after adsorption into nano- to micrometer-sized pores, but this day distribution these in ceramics was virtually unknown, which severely limits our understanding process lipid preservation. Here we use secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) imaging...
ABSTRACT At archaeological sites located on islands or near the coast, potential exists for lipid extracts of potsherds to contain fatty acids (FA) from both aquatic and terrestrial organisms, meaning that consideration must be given marine reservoir effects (MRE) in radiocarbon ( 14 C) analyses. Here we studied site Bornais (Outer Hebrides, UK) where a local MRE, ΔR –65 ± 45 yr was determined through paired C determinations faunal bones. Lipid analysis 49 potsherds, revealed biomarkers 45%...
• Lipids in archaeological ceramics provide information about past human diet. New instrumental approaches higher sensitivity and coverage. Reference cooking experiments are pivotal for reliable identification of commodities. Advanced analytical techniques interpretive frameworks enable us to address new complex research questions.
Archaeology has yet to capitalise on the opportunities offered by bioarchaeological approaches examine impact of 11th-century AD Norman Conquest England. This study utilises an integrated multiproxy analytical approach identify and explain changes continuities in diet foodways between 10th 13th centuries city Oxford, UK. The integration organic residue analysis ceramics, carbon (δ13C) nitrogen (δ15N) isotope human animal bones, incremental δ13C δ15N from tooth dentine palaeopathological...
Cereal cultivation in Britain dates back to ca. 4000 BCE, probably introduced by migrant farmers from continental Europe. Widespread evidence for livestock appears the archaeozoological record, also reflected ubiquitous dairy lipids pottery organic residues. However, despite archaeobotanical domesticated plants (such as cereals), residue has been near-absent. Our approach, targeting low-abundance cereal-specific markers, now revealed cereals (indicating wheat) Neolithic Scottish 'crannogs',...
The Jomon culture is an ancient Japanese society that existed during approximately 14,000 to 400 BC and which characterized by (cord pattern) pottery. To investigate the paleodiet of people northeastern Tohoku in Japan Final period (about 1000–400 BC), we studied three sites Aomori Prefecture, center Kamegaoka culture. Fubinashi site on coast was supported a rich fishing Imazu coastal salt-making site. Sugisawa mountainous inland banks river. We determined 14 C ages interior exterior...
Abstract Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry profiling is the most established method for analysis of organic residues, particularly lipids, from archaeological contexts. This technique allows decryption hidden chemical information associated with artefacts, such as ceramic pottery fragments. The molecular and isotopic compositions residues can be used to reconstruct past resource use, hence address major questions relating patterns subsistence, diet ritual practices in past. A targeted...