Ref ID:	28763
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Reber, Eleanora A. Dudd, Stephani, N. van de Merwe, Nikolaas J. Evershed, Richard P.
Title:	Direct detection of maize in pottery residues via compound specific stable carbon isotope analysis
Date:	2004
Source:	Antiquity
Abstract:	Discovering what was cooked in a pot by identifying lipids trapped in the potsherds has been a highly successful method developed in recent years. Here the authors identify a compound which shows the pots had been used to process maize - probably the most important foodstuff in later prehistoric North America. The uptake of maize is confirmed as coincident with the Mississippian fluorescence.
Date Created:	3/31/2011
Volume:	78
Number:	301
Page Start:	682
Page End:	691