Ceramic cooking pots record history of ancient food practices

Thursday, August 27, 2020 - 10:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Analyzing three components of ceramic cooking pots—charred remains, inner surface residues and lipids absorbed within the ceramic walls—may help archaeologists uncover detailed timelines of culinary cooking practices used by ancient civilizations. The findings, from a year-long cooking experiment, are published this week in Scientific Reports.

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