Neolithic pottery

Yelon, A., A. Saucier, J. P. Lerocque, P. E. L. Smith, and P. Vandiver (1992), Thermal analysis of early Neolithic pottery from Tepe Ganj Dareh, Material Research Society Symp. Proc., Vol. 267, pp. 591-607. 

Figure 11.6 Plot of the difference (A value) between the 513C values of stearic (Ci8 0) and palmitic (C16 0) acid against the 513C value of stearic acid (Ci8 0). The data points represent samples extracted from Early Neolithic pottery in the study published by Craig et al., 2005. A values below —3.3%o are interpreted as ruminant dairy. The inset shows the range and abundance of triacylglycerols preserved in the Early Neolithic vessels from Ecsegfalva, Hungary, (from Craig et al., 2005 Figure 3b, by permission of Antiquity Publications Ltd.)...

Xu, A. W., Wang, C. S., Chi, J. Q., et al. (2001). Preliminary provenance research on Chinese Neolithic pottery Huating (Xinyi County) and three Yellow River Valley sites. Archaeometry 43 35 17. 

Oudemans, F.M., J.J. Boon, R.E. Botto. 2007. Clay resources and technical choices for Neolithic pottery (Chalain, Jura, France) chemical, mineralogical and grain-size analyses. Archaeometry 49 23-52. 

Traces of alcoholic beverages made from rice, honey and fruit have been found in 9000-year-old Neolithic pottery in ChinaT However, there have also been well-documented instances of wild animals, such as pentailed shrew monkeys, for whom substantial quantities of naturally fermented, fallen fruit containing 3.8% alcohol is a staple of their diet. Thus it seems likely that people have been ingesting alcohol in one form or another for as long as human-like animals have roamed the Earth. As a result, alcohol consumption has become an integral part of the social and economic fabric of many societies, even in those societies which attempt to prohibit it. 

Evershed, R. P., Dudd, S. N., Copley, M. S. and Mukherjee, A. J. (2003b) Identification of animal fats via compound specific 813C values of individual fatty acids assessments of results for reference fats and lipid extracts of archaeological pottery vessels. In Documenta Praehistorica, XXIX 9th Neolithic Studies (Ed. Budja, M.), Ljubljana, pp. 73 96. 

Spangenberg, J. E., Jacomet, J. and Schibler, J. (2006) Chemical analyses of organic residues in archaeological pottery from Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland evidence for dairying in the late Neolithic. Journal of Archaeological Science 33, 1 13. 

Fazeli, H., Coningham, R. A. E., and Pollard, A. M. (2001). Chemical characterization of Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic pottery from the Tehran Plain, Iran. Iran XXXIX 1-17. 

Cannabis use by humans dates from prehistoric times. It was used as a food source, medicine, fuel source, for fiber, and as a recreational drug. Although it is not known how Cannabis was first used, fibers and seeds have been found in Neolithic archaeological sites. Pottery... 

Bitumen traces in ceramic vessels from Neolithic Iran, 137-151 pottery sherds, sampling and characterization, 141-142 Black willow, charred, infrared spectra, 63,64/... 

Mesopotamian glazed ceramics, 430-433,435/, 437-440 obsidian sourcing, 278,279-281 See also Neutron activation analysis Intermountain Region, North America, historic pottery, 447-459 Iran, Neolithic, bitumen traces in ceramic vessels, 137-151 Iran, Neolithic sites Ali Kosh, 138, 139/... 

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