Pottery Foodcrust

Reveals ancient diets

Provides simultaneous lipid and protein molecular evidence to distinguish terrestrial mammal and aquatic product sources.

Lyu, Nanning · Long, Yan · Wang, Tao · Liugen, Lin · Rao, Huiyun · Yang, Yimin

Journal of Archaeological Science 2024

Specifications

culture period ca
{'zh': '', 'en': '5300'} BP

Advantages

Detected medium- and long-chain fatty acids, dicarboxylic acids, aliphatic alcohols, sterols and derivatives, isoprenoid fatty acids, and long-chain ketones

Detected proteins of terrestrial mammals and aquatic products