Direct detection of maize in pottery residues via compound specific stable carbon isotope analysis

• Autores: Eleanora A. Reber, Stephanie N. Dudd, Nikolaas J. van der Merwe, Richard P. Evershed
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 78, Nº 301, 2004, págs. 682-691
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Discovering what was cooked in a pot by identifying lipids trapped in the potsherds has been a highly successful method developed in recent years. Here the authors identify a compound which shows the pots had been used to process maize – probably the most important foodstuff in later prehistoric North America. The uptake of maize is confirmed as coincident with the Mississippian fluorescence.