Theory and practice of archaeological residue analysis / edited by Hans Barnard, Jelmer W. Eerkens. - Oxford, England : Archaeopress, 2007. - vi, 274 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm. - BAR international series ; 1650. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Archaeological chemistry.
Archaeology--Methodology.

CC79.C5 / T44 2007