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Domestic activities and pottery use in the Iron Age Corsican settlement of Cuciurpula revealed by organic residue analysis
Domestic activities and pottery use in the Iron Age Corsican settlement of Cuciurpula revealed by organic residue analysis
- Source :
- Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Elsevier, 2018, 19, pp.213-223. ⟨10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.02.032⟩, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Elsevier, 2018, pp.213-223, HAL
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- International audience; The excavation of the protohistoric site of Cuciurpula (South Corsica, France) revealed a significant amount of potsherds, often bearing visible surface crusts, sometimes very thick. This exceptional case in the Mediterranean region, suggesting a good preservation of organic substances, provided a unique opportunity to address questions related to pottery function and natural organic substances exploited in Corsica during the first half of the 1st millennium BC. The molecular analysis (GC and GC/MS) of organic residues from three houses of the site, preserved in both pottery walls and charred surface crusts, highlighted the wide diversity and the various roles of substances contained and processed in ceramic vessels: animal fats, plant oils and waxes, beeswax, and conifer resin. These molecular data, considered together with the shapes of the vessels and their location into the habitation units, revealed the diversity of pottery function (culinary and technical) and spatial organisation of domestic activities between houses or in a house (distinction between storage and cooking areas).
- Subjects :
- Mediterranean climate
Archeology
[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory
Spatial organisation
Iron Age
Corsica
01 natural sciences
Beeswax
Adhesive making
Visible surface
Spatial distribution
0601 history and archaeology
Pottery function
060102 archaeology
010401 analytical chemistry
[CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry
06 humanities and the arts
Archaeology
language.human_language
0104 chemical sciences
Molecular analysis
Geography
visual_art
visual_art.visual_art_medium
language
Pottery
Organic residue analysis
Corsican
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 2352409X
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7ad2dc1caa355c906953e102827ec5f3
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.02.032