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Pot Residues Reveal Secrets of Ancient Cuisine – Ancient Origins

A team of archaeologists from the University of California, Berkeley, have published a new research paper in the journal Scientific Reports, which presents evidence that unglazed ancient ceramics sometimes retain microscopic food residues which

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A team of archaeologists from the University of California, Berkeley, have published a new research paper in the journal  Scientific Reports , which presents evidence that unglazed ancient ceramics sometimes retain microscopic food residues which, after chemical analysis, can reveal not only what had last been cooked in a pot, but also what was cooked over a pots lifetime.
The co-lead author, Melanie Miller, a researcher at Berkeleys Archaeological Research Facility and a postdoctoral scholar …

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