English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
Add to Basket
 Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary
  Shell we cook it? An experimental approach to the microarchaeological record of shellfish roasting

Aldeias, V., Gur-Arieh, S., Maria, R., Monteiro, P., & Cura, P. (2019). Shell we cook it? An experimental approach to the microarchaeological record of shellfish roasting. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11(2), 389-407. doi:10.1007/s12520-016-0413-1.

Item is

 

show all hide all

Basic

show hide
Item Permalink: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002B-BA9B-5 Version Permalink: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-1256-F
Genre: Journal Article

Files

show Files
hide Files
:
Aldeias_Shell_ArchaeolAnthroSci_2019.pdf (Publisher version), 8MB
View   Save
File Permalink:
https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-1FAF-7
Name:
Aldeias_Shell_ArchaeolAnthroSci_2019.pdf
Description:
-
OA-Status:
Hybrid
Visibility:
Public
MIME-Type / Checksum:
application/pdf / [MD5]
Technical Metadata:
View
Copyright Date:
2019
Copyright Info:
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
License:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
:
Aldeias_Shell_ArchaeolAnthroSci_2019.docx (Supplementary material), 4MB
View   Save
File Permalink:
https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-1FB0-4
Name:
Aldeias_Shell_ArchaeolAnthroSci_2019.docx
Description:
-
OA-Status:
Hybrid
Visibility:
Public
MIME-Type / Checksum:
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document / [MD5]
Technical Metadata:
View
Copyright Date:
2019
Copyright Info:
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
License:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-016-0413-1#copyrightInformation

Locators

show

Creators

show
hide
 Creators:
Aldeias, Vera1, Author                 
Gur-Arieh, Shira2, Author                 
Maria, Raquel, Author
Monteiro, Patricia, Author
Cura, Pedro, Author
Affiliations:
1Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society, ou_1497673              
2Max Planck Research Group on Plant Foods in Hominin Dietary Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society, ou_1497684              

Content

show
hide
Free keywords: Experimental archaeology; Cooking; Shellfish; roasting; Fire; FTIR; Soil Micromorphology
 Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the microarchaeological traces and archaeological visibility of shellfish cooking activities through a series of experimental procedures with direct roasting using wood-fueled fires and controlled heating in a muffle furnace. An interdisciplinary geoarchaeological approach, combining micromorphology, FTIR (in transmission and ATR collection modes), TGA and XRD, was used to establish a baseline on the mineralogical transformation of heated shells from aragonite to calcite and diagnostic sedimentary traces produced by roasting fire features. Our experimental design focused on three main types of roasting procedures: the construction of shallow depressions with heated rocks (pebble cuvette experiments), placing shellfish on top of hot embers and ashes (fire below experiment), and by kindling short-lived fires on top of shellfish (fire above experiments). Our results suggest that similar shellfish roasting procedures will largely create microstratigraphic signatures of anthropogenically reworked combusted material spatially “disconnected” from the actual combustion locus. The construction of shallow earth ovens might entail an increased archaeological visibility, and some diagnostic signatures of in situ hearths can be obtained by fire below roasting activities. We also show that macroscopic visual modifications and mineralogical characterization of discarded shellfish might be indicative of specific cooking activities versus secondary burning.

Details

show
hide
Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2019-02
 Publication Status: Issued
 Pages: 19
 Publishing info: -
 Table of Contents: -
 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1007/s12520-016-0413-1
 Degree: -

Event

show

Legal Case

show

Project information

show

Source 1

show
hide
Title: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  Other : Archaeol Anthropol Sci
Source Genre: Journal
 Creator(s):
Affiliations:
Publ. Info: Berlin [u.a.] : Springer
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 11 (2) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 389 - 407 Identifier: Other: 1866-9557
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/1866-9557