There’s more to a vessel than meets the eye: Organic residue analysis of ‘wine’ containers from shipwrecks and settlements of ancient Cyprus (4th–1st century bce)

Autor: Lisa Briggs, Stella Demesticha, Susan Katzev, Helena Wylde Swiny, Oliver E. Craig, Léa Drieu
Přispěvatelé: The British Museum, The Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, University of Cyprus (UCY), Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA, Harvard University [Cambridge], Departments of Archaeology [York] (BioArch), University of York [York, UK]
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Archaeometry
Archaeometry, Wiley, 2022, ⟨10.1111/arcm.12747⟩
ISSN: 0003-813X
1475-4754
Popis: Despite growing evidence to the contrary, wine remains the assumed content of many types of ancient pottery. Vessels from the Kyrenia and Mazotos shipwrecks, and Yeronisos island presumed to have contained wine were subjected to three different extraction protocols to test the assumption that these vessels were used to import and serve wine. Chemical extracts reveal grapevine products but also other fruit juice, beeswax and plant oil, sometimes mixed with grapevine products due to intentional mixing or reuse. Biomarkers detected in sediment samples from Mazotos and Yeronisos demonstrate why quantification is vital. Analyses show that even seemingly identical ceramics from the same shipwreck contained different commodities.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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