Lipid residues (Other Keyword)

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In Their Cups?: Background lipids in shell as a basis for analyzing shell cup residues (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanora Reber. Raghda el-Behaedi.

Lipids in a variety of large shells were extracted using both destructive and non-destructive techniques and analyzed with GC/MS. In pottery residue analysis, lipids found in extracted residues can be assumed to derive from human usage because natural geolipids are removed from the clay during firing. Shell cups do not undergo firing at temperatures high enough to result in lipid removal. As a result, it is important to understand the natural lipids present in large shells before attempting...


Integrating Lipid Residue Analysis into Zooarchaeological Research (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alan Outram.

This paper considers the use of lipid residue analyses as an integral part of zooarchaeological research. It critically assesses the different types of information that can be gained from the study of both animal bones and lipid residues. It is not the intention to provide detailed consideration of the methods of lipid residue analysis, but instead to concentrate on zooarchaeological interpretation, drawing out, from examples, the different methodologies’ strengths and weaknesses in relation to...


Pottery use in Alaskan prehistory: an organic residue analysis approach (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Farrell. Peter Jordan. Rick Knecht. Oliver Craig.

Despite major environmental challenges, pottery was manufactured and used by Palaeo- and Neo-Eskimos in Alaska for millennia. To better understand why pottery was used by Alaskan hunter-gatherers, the authors have undertaken a number of site-based organic residue analyses that provide direct biomolecular and isotopic evidence for the contents of past pots. The ubiquitous presence of aquatic biomarkers, along with compound specific isotope data, show that pottery use at the sites was consistently...