A call for caution in the analysis of lipids and other small biomolecules from archaeological contexts

Assessing the degradation of ancient milk proteins through site-specific deamidation patterns

(2021) Abigail Ramsøe et al.   Scientific Reports

Organic residue analysis of Iron Age ceramics from the archaeological site of Kani‐zirin, western Iran

(2020) N. Qanbari‐Taheri et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Digging deeper - A new data mining workflow for improved processing and interpretation of high resolution GC-Q-TOF MS data in archaeological research

(2020) Ansgar Korf et al.   Scientific Reports

Accurate compound-specific 14C dating of archaeological pottery vessels

(2020) Emmanuelle Casanova et al.   NATURE

COMPOUND-SPECIFIC RADIOCARBON, STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE AND BIOMARKER ANALYSIS OF MIXED MARINE/TERRESTRIAL LIPIDS PRESERVED IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL POTTERY VESSELS

(2020) Emmanuelle Casanova et al.   RADIOCARBON

Living off the land: Terrestrial-based diet and dairying in the farming communities of the Neolithic Balkans

(2020) Darko Stojanovski et al.   PLoS One

Interpreting ancient food practices: stable isotope and molecular analyses of visible and absorbed residues from a year-long cooking experiment

(2020) Melanie J. Miller et al.   Scientific Reports

Ancient Organic Residues as Cultural and Environmental Proxies: The Value of Legacy Objects

(2019) Andrew Koh et al.   Sustainability

Non-targeted pattern recognition in the search for pyrolysis gas chromatography/mass spectrometry resin markers in historic lacquered objects.

(2019) Louise Decq et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Analytical Interpretation of Organic Residues From Ceramics As a Source of Knowledge About Our Ancestors

(2019) Angelina Rosiak et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Reconciling organic residue analysis, faunal, archaeobotanical and historical records: Diet and the medieval peasant at West Cotton, Raunds, Northamptonshire

(2019) J. Dunne et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Milk of ruminants in ceramic baby bottles from prehistoric child graves

(2019) J. Dunne et al.   NATURE

The dynamics of Early Celtic consumption practices: A case study of the pottery from the Heuneburg

(2019) Maxime Rageot et al.   PLoS One

Lipid Residues from Low-Fired Pottery

(2018) E. A. Reber et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Revealing invisible brews: A new approach to the chemical identification of ancient beer

(2018) E. Perruchini et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Towards the detection of dietary cereal processing through absorbed lipid biomarkers in archaeological pottery

(2018) Simon Hammann et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Reconstruction of prehistoric pottery use from fatty acid carbon isotope signatures using Bayesian inference

(2018) Ricardo Fernandes et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Analyzing mixing systems using a new generation of Bayesian tracer mixing models

(2018) Brian C. Stock et al.   PeerJ

Fatty acid specific δ13C values reveal earliest Mediterranean cheese production 7,200 years ago

(2018) Sarah B. McClure et al.   PLoS One

Evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kyBP climate event on Near Eastern early farmers

(2018) Mélanie Roffet-Salque et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ancient proteins from ceramic vessels at Çatalhöyük West reveal the hidden cuisine of early farmers

(2018) Jessica Hendy et al.   Nature Communications

Cholesterol degradation in archaeological pottery mediated by fired clay and fatty acid pro-oxidants

(2018) Simon Hammann et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Target screening analysis of 970 semi-volatile organic compounds adsorbed on atmospheric particulate matter in Hanoi, Vietnam

(2018) Hanh Thi Duong et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

The identification of poultry processing in archaeological ceramic vessels using in-situ isotope references for organic residue analysis

(2017) A.C. Colonese et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Cautionary tales on the identification of caffeinated beverages in North America

(2017) Adam King et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Early Neolithic wine of Georgia in the South Caucasus

(2017) Patrick McGovern et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New criteria for the molecular identification of cereal grains associated with archaeological artefacts

(2017) Andre Carlo Colonese et al.   Scientific Reports

Oxysterols in cosmetics—Determination by planar solid phase extraction and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry

(2016) S. Schrack et al.   JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A

The significance of petroleum bitumen in ancient Egyptian mummies

(2016) K. A. Clark et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Regional asynchronicity in dairy production and processing in early farming communities of the northern Mediterranean

(2016) Cynthianne Debono Spiteri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Utilising phytanic acid diastereomers for the characterisation of archaeological lipid residues in pottery samples

(2016) Alexandre Lucquin et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Impact of modern cattle feeding practices on milk fatty acid stable carbon isotope compositions emphasise the need for caution in selecting reference animal tissues and products for archaeological investigations

(2016) Mélanie Roffet-Salque et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

First molecular and isotopic evidence of millet processing in prehistoric pottery vessels

(2016) Carl Heron et al.   Scientific Reports

Extraction and derivatization of absorbed lipid residues from very small and very old samples of ceramic potsherds for molecular analysis by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) and single compound stable carbon isotope analysis by gas chromatography–combustion–isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC–C–IRMS)

(2015) Vasiliki Papakosta et al.   MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Widespread exploitation of the honeybee by early Neolithic farmers

(2015) Mélanie Roffet-Salque et al.   NATURE

High throughput screening of organic residues in archaeological potsherds using direct acidified methanol extraction

(2014) Marisol Correa-Ascencio et al.   Analytical Methods

Chemical analysis of cacao residues in archaeological ceramics from North America: considerations of contamination, sample size and systematic controls

(2014) Dorothy K. Washburn et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Food Reconstruction Using Isotopic Transferred Signals (FRUITS): A Bayesian Model for Diet Reconstruction

(2014) Ricardo Fernandes et al.   PLoS One

Fatty acid composition differences between adipose depot sites in dairy and beef steer breeds

(2013) T. Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-MYSORE

First dairying in green Saharan Africa in the fifth millennium bc

(2012) Julie Dunne et al.   NATURE

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR THE PROCESSING OF MARINE ANIMAL PRODUCTS AND OTHER COMMODITIES CONTAINING POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS IN POTTERY VESSELS*

(2010) R. P. EVERSHED et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

Effect of maturity stage on the content of fatty acids and antioxidant activity of ‘Hass’ avocado

(2010) Jose A. Villa-Rodríguez et al.   FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL

Ergosterol (5, 7, 22-ergostatrien-3β-ol) as a potential biomarker for alcohol fermentation in lipid residues from prehistoric pottery

(2010) Sven Isaksson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

High-temperature gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for skin surface lipids profiling

(2010) Rime Michael-Jubeli et al.   JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH

Analytical strategies for discriminating archeological fatty substances from animal origin

(2010) M. Regert   MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS

Source Partitioning Using Stable Isotopes: Coping with Too Much Variation

(2010) Andrew C. Parnell et al.   PLoS One

The Earliest Horse Harnessing and Milking

(2009) A. K. Outram et al.   SCIENCE

Formation of dihydroxy acids from Z-monounsaturated alkenoic acids and their use as biomarkers for the processing of marine commodities in archaeological pottery vessels

(2009) Fabricio A. Hansel et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Novel analytical methods for characterising binding media and protective coatings in artworks

(2008) María Teresa Doménech-Carbó   ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA

PINE RESINS AND POTTERY SEALING: ANALYSIS OF ABSORBED AND VISIBLE POTTERY RESIDUES FROM CENTRAL NEW YORK STATE*

(2008) E. A. REBER et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

RECONSTRUCTING ANCIENT YEMENI COMMERCIAL ROUTES DURING THE MIDDLE AGES USING STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TERPENOID RESINS*

(2008) M. REGERT et al.   ARCHAEOMETRY

ORGANIC RESIDUE ANALYSIS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL BIOMARKER REVOLUTION*

(2008) R. P. EVERSHED   ARCHAEOMETRY

New investigations into the Uluburun resin cargo

(2008) B. Stern et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding

(2008) Richard P. Evershed et al.   NATURE