Several studies have been performed so far for the effective recovery, detection and
quantification of specific compounds and their degradation products in archaeological …

Abstract The Eastern European steppe and forest-steppe is a key region for understanding
the emergence of pottery in Europe. The vast region encompasses the basins of two major …

Proteomic analysis of absorbed residues is increasingly used to identify the foodstuffs
processed in ancient ceramic vessels, but detailed methodological investigations in this field …

Abstract In the early Holocene, Mesolithic hunter-gatherer communities inhabiting the Cis-
Baikal region of Eastern Siberia were participating in a series of important cultural changes …

What drives the adoption of pottery amongst prehistoric foragers in high-latitude
environments? Following the long-running interests of archaeology in explaining the origin …

Plant foods play an important role in the human diet and the ability to grow, store and extract
nutritive potential from plants has had a transformative role in human history. During the …

This Element volume focuses on how archaeologists construct narratives of past people and
environments from the complex and fragmented archaeological record. In keeping with its …

Agriculture based on broomcorn and foxtail millet has been identified as one of the main
drivers of population expansion and/or resource and innovation transfer across Neolithic …

The ability to control and direct fire is a major evolutionary step in the human story. The
development of aceramic cooking technologies is less well understood as they rarely …

The goal of this contribution is to stimulate a wider reflection on the role of food consumption
practices throughout prehistory. We focussed on the Jōmon communities of Hokkaidō Island …