Back to Search Start Over

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

Authors :
Léa Drieu
Kewin Peche-Quilichini
Martine Regert
Thibault Lachenal
Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF)
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)
Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes (ASM)
Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC)
Culture et Environnements, Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age (CEPAM)
Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS)
COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)
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.

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).

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