Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.11588/data/5NSDVM |
Publication Date
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2020-10-22 |
Title
| Supplementary information to 'Defining pottery use and exploitation of natural products at Clairvaux XIV during the Middle Neolithic' |
Author
| Drieu, Léa (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, CEPAM, France)
Mirabaud, Sigrid (INP, Institut National du Patrimoine, Aubervilliers, France)
Roffet-Salque, Mélanie (Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
Blasco, Thierry (CNRS-UPMC UnivParis 06, UMR 7093, LOV, Plateforme Spectrochimie isotopique, Villefranche sur Mer, France)
Pétrequin, Pierre (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de l’Environnement C.N. Ledoux, CNRS & Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon Cedex, France)
Pétrequin, Anne-Marie (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de l’Environnement C.N. Ledoux, CNRS & Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon Cedex, France)
Evershed, Richard P. (Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
Reger, Martine (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, CEPAM, France) |
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Drieu, Lea (Universität Heidelberg) |
Description
| Investigating pottery function requires optimal preservation of both ceramic vessels and organic residues related to vessel use. If these criteria are met then opportunities emerge for combining macroscopic observations, typological classification, and capacity measurements and molecular and isotopic proxies (GC, GC-MS, and GC-C-IRMS) to explore vessel use and resource exploitation. The exceptional ceramic assemblage of hundreds of vessels excavated from the Middle Neolithic site of Clairvaux XIV (Jura, France, IVth millennium B.C.) offered such an opportunity, with a wide diversity of vessel shapes and extraordinary preservation of lipids. Interrogating the lipid residues together with typological analyses revealed a complex system of ceramic vessel use. Despite the scarcity of aquatic products, a wide diversity of natural substances has been detected: ruminant adipose fats, dairy products, plant substances, and beeswax. These commodities were processed in specific vessels with three main different functions: cooking vessels of various volumes, serving dishes for animal products, and dedicated vessels for dairy product processing and consumption. |
Subject
| Arts and Humanities |
Keyword
| Lake dwelling site
Middle Neolithic
vessel use
organic residues
lipids
carbon isotopes
dairying |
Related Publication
| Albert Hafner, Ekaterina Dolbunova, Andrey Mazurkevich, Elena Pranckenaite, Martin Hinz (eds.): Settling waterscapes in Europe. The archaeology of Neolithic and Bronze Age pile-dwellings (Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology, Bd. 1), S. 251-274 doi: 10.11588/propylaeum.714 https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.714 |
Language
| English |
Deposit Date
| 2020-08-12 |