Durst (Site Name Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan. Jammi L. Ladwig.

Twenty precontact ceramic sherds from the Durst Site (36SO388) in southwestern Pennsylvania were submitted for organic residue analysis (Table 1). Samples were tested using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Of these twenty ceramic sherds, ten were also examined for starch grains as a result of promising evidence of food residues from FTIR analysis. FTIR analysis provides information concerning the compounds that were extracted from the sherd. Information concerning foods that might...