Animal exploitation and pottery use during the early LBK phases of the Neolithic site of Bylany (Czech Republic) tracked through lipid residue analysis
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985912%3A_____%2F21%3A00543151" target="_blank" >RIV/67985912:_____/21:00543151 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60461373:22330/20:43920798 RIV/61389005:_____/21:00543151 RIV/61388963:_____/21:00543151
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.10.045" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.10.045</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.10.045" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.quaint.2020.10.045</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Animal exploitation and pottery use during the early LBK phases of the Neolithic site of Bylany (Czech Republic) tracked through lipid residue analysis
Original language description
The Neolithic site of Bylany (CZ) is one of the largest and most thoroughly described Neolithic settlement in Central Europe. Although a comprehensive understanding has been achieved of the household development and pottery assemblage, little is known about household economies, dietary practices and animal exploitation strategies at the site. Nowadays such information can be tracked through the molecular and isotopic composition of organic lipid residues preserved in porous walls of archaeological potsherds (e.g. Cramp et al., 2014, Whelton et al., 2017). The pottery assemblage of Bylany is very abundant and this approach had previously been applied to one of the later settlement phases (later LBK, phase 19) revealing a meat- and plant-based diet and an exploitation of both ruminant and non-ruminant animals. To examine the economy over a longer settlement period of Bylany, ceramic material from the oldest part of the settlement was chosen. More than 130 rim potsherds attributed to the early LBK settlement phases 2 to 5 were analysed using a lipid biomarker approach combining chromatographic, spectrometric and isotopic methods. The analyses revealed that the fats absorbed in the ceramics were well-preserved with almost 90% of the sherds containing lipids. The lipid concentration varied in different vessel shapes with higher concentrations in dishes compared to bowls and jars. The stable carbon isotopic compositions of palmitic and stearic fatty acids, the major fatty acids present in the total lipid extracts, revealed that ruminant carcass products were the predominant animal products processed in the vessels. Plant product processing were confirmed by the presence of fatty alcohols, dicarboxylic acids and terpenic compounds. Detection of biomarkers produced at high temperature confirmed the thermal stress observed in some of the vessels. Although ruminants probably played a dominant role in the early phases of Bylany, as seen in the later phase 19, dairy fat residues were not detected in the analysed potsherds. These results thus shed light on the dietary strategies practiced in Bylany and are in agreement with the studies of other Central European Neolithic sites.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000728" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000728: Ultra-trace isotope research in social and environmental studies using accelerator mass spectrometry</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Quaternary International
ISSN
1040-6182
e-ISSN
1873-4553
Volume of the periodical
574
Issue of the periodical within the volume
FEB
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
91-101
UT code for WoS article
000701941000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85095850792