Research Catalog

Title

Theory and practice of archaeological residue analysis / edited by Hans Barnard, Jelmer W. Eerkens.

Publication

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barnard, H.
• Eerkens, Jelmer W.

Description

vi, 274 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

BAR international series ; 1650

Subjects

• Archaeological chemistry
• Archaeology > Methodology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / J.W. Eerkens and H. Barnard -- Residues of maize in North American pottery: what phytoliths can add to the story of maize / R.K. Lusteck and R.G. Thompson -- Micro-residues on stone tools: the bigger picture from a South African middle Stone Age perspective / M. Lombard and L. Wadley -- Methods of interpreting Bronze Age vessel residues: discussion, correlation and the verification of data / N.I. Shishlina ... [et al.] -- An introduction to archaeological lipid analysis by GC/MS / H. Barnard, A.N. Dooley and K.F. Faull -- Elucidating pottery function using a multi-step analytical methodology combining infrared spectroscopy, chromatographic procedures and mass spectrometry / M. Regert -- Fatty acid analysis of archaeological residues: procedures and possibilities / M.E. Malainey -- Organic residue analysis and the decomposition of fatty acids in ancient potsherds / J.W. Eerkens -- A comparative study of extractable lipids in the sherds and surface resident crusts of cermaic vessels from Neolithic and Roman Iron Age settlements in the Netherlands / T.F.M. Oudemans and J.J. Boon -- Patterns of subsistence change during the final neolithic in the Primorye Region of the Russian Far East as revealed by fatty acid residue analysis / J. Cassidy -- Using residue analysis to confirm trade connections at Pella, Jordan / H.A. Hoekman-Sites -- The well-tempered pottery analysis: residue and typological analysis of potsherds from the Lower Mississippi Valley / E.A. Reber -- Analysis of lipid residues in archaeological artifacts: marine mammal oil and cooking practices in the Arctic / C. Solazzo and D. Erhardt -- The archaeology of alkaloids / S.M. Rafferty -- Reconstructing Mississippian diet in the American bottom with stable isotope ratios of pot sherd residues / D.E. Beehr and S.H. Ambrose -- Results of seven methods for organic residue analysis applied to one vessel with the residue of a known foodstuff / H. Barnard ... [et al.] -- Introduction to the analysis of protein residues in archaeological ceramics / H. Barnard ... [et al.] -- Appendix I: Common isotopes of 99 elements -- Appendix II: A short overview of protein biochemistry.

ISBN

• 1407300849
• 9781407300849

LCCN

2007408606

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library