Research Catalog

Title

Archaeology meets science : biomolecular investigations in Bronze Age Greece : the primary scientific evidence, 1997-2003 / edited by Yannis Tzedakis, Holley Martlew and Martin K. Jones.

Publication

Oxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, Conn. : Available from The David Brown Book Co., c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Jones, M. K. (Martin K.)
• Martlew, Holley
• Tzedakis, Yannis

Description

xxiv, 304 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Subject

• Archeologie
• Biomoleculen
• Bronze age > Greece
• Greece > Antiquities
• Griekenland
• Koken (natuurkunde)
• Onderzoek
• Prehistoric peoples > Food

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to the history of organic residue analysis / Curt W. Beck -- Certainty and doubt in organic residue analysis / Curt W. Beck and Edith Stout -- Analysis of organic remains in the fabric of Minoan and Mycenaean pottery sherds by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry / Curt W. Beck ... [et al.] -- Absorbed organic residues in pottery from the Minoan settlement of Pseira, Crete / Organic residue analysis: Pseira / Ruth F. Breston, Joe Palatinus and Curt W. Beck -- Organic residue analysis: Chrysokamino / Ruth F. Breston, Joe Palatinus and Curt W. Beck -- Chrysokamino: occupational health and the earliest medicines on Crete / Robert Arnott -- Organic residue analysis of ceramics from the Neolithic Cave of Gerani, West Crete / Oliver Craig -- Organic residues in pottery of the Bronze Age in Greece / the late John Evans-completed by Victor Garner --^ Alternative approaches to organic residue analysis: the Early Hellenic Cemetery at Kalamaki; the Mycenaean settlement on Salamis; the Late Hellenic Cemetery at Sykia; Vivara, settlement of Punta d'Alaca, Bay of Naples, Italy / Victor Garner -- Atypical calcium carbonate precipitates in narrow-necked Late Hellenic jars: a potential indicator of organic residues / Andrew P. Gize ... [et al.] -- The chemical identification of resinated wine and a mixed fermented beverage in Bronze Age pottery vessels of Greece / Patrick E. McGovern ... [et al.] -- Stable isotope evidence of past human diet at the sites of the Neolithic Cave of Gerani: the Late Minoan III Cemetery of Armenoi; Grave Circles A and B at the Palace site of Mycenae; and the Late Hellenic Chamber Tombs / M.P. Richards and R.E.M. Hedges -- Stable isotope results from new sites in the Peloponnese: cemeteries at Sykia, Kalamaki and Spaliareika / M.P. Richards and E. Vika --^ Protocols: ceramic artefacts and skeletal material / Holley Martlew -- Biomolecular archaeology in the Aegaen context: problems and prospects / Curt W. Beck ... [et al.] -- Site descriptions and catalogue entries.

ISBN

• 9781842172384
• 1842172387

LCCN

^^2008411210

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Harvard Library