FTIR and solid-state 13C CP/MAS NMR spectroscopy of charred and non-charred solid organic residues preserved in roman iron age vessels from the Netherlands

Archaeometry

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 571-294

  Oudemans, T F M ^a,b   Boon, J J ^a   Botto, R E ^c  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Char; FTIR; Lipids; NMR; Organic residues; Proteins; Roman iron age; Use; Vessel

Indexed keywords

CERAMICS; DIAMOND ANVIL CELL; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; IRON AGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ORGANIC RESIDUE ROCK; ROMAN ERA; VESSEL;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548280760     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2007.00321.x     Document Type: Article

References (83)

1. Abbink, A. A., 1985, Onderzoek naar handgevormd aardewerk uit de Romeinse Tijd uit de nederzetting Uitgeest-Groot Dorregeest: De relaties tussen vorm, functie en technologie, in, Jaarverslag over 1983 van de Rijksdienst voor Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek, Amersfoort (eds. M. C. P. Levendig-Snijders, J. F. van Regteren Altena and W. J. H. Willems), 27-8, Rijswijk.
2. Abbink, A. A., 1999, Make it and break it: Cycles of pottery. A study of the technology, form, function and use of pottery from settlements at Uitgeest-Groot Dorregeest and Schagen-Muggenburg 1, Roman period, North-Holland, The Netherlands, Leiden University, Leiden.
3. Arnold, D. E., 1985, Ceramic theory and cultural process, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
4. Arnold, D. E., 2000, Does standardization of ceramic paste really mean specialization?, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, no. 7, pp. 333-75.
5. Aronson, M., Skibo, J. M., and Stark, M. T., 1994, Production and use technologies in Kalinga pottery, in Kalinga ethnoarchaeology - expanding archaeological method and theory (eds. W. A. Longacre and J. M. Skibo), 83-111, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
6. Arthur, J. W., 2002, Pottery use-alteration as an indicator of socioeconomic status: An ethnoarchaeological study of the Gamo of Ethiopia, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 9, 331-55.
7. Boon, J. J., Pastorova, I., Botto, R. E., and Arisz, P. W., 1994, Structural studies on cellulose pyrolysis and cellulose chars by PYMS, PYGCMS, NMR and by wet chemical techniques, Biomass and Bioenergy, 7(1-6), 25-32.
8. 13C NMR tracer studies to probe coalification, Journal of Energy & Fuels, 1, 228-30.
9. 13C NMR spectroscopy for the quantitative analysis of coals: Study of whole coals and maceral concentrates, Energy & Fuels, 1, 173-81.
10. Braadbaart, F., 2004, Carbonization of peas and wheat - a window into the past, Leiden University, Leiden.
11. Braadbaart, F., Boon, J. J., van der Horst, J., and van Bergen, P. F., 2004a, Laboratory simulations of the transformation of peas as a result of heating: The change of the molecular composition by DTMS, Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 71, 997-1026.
12. Braadbaart, F., van der Horst, J., Boon, J. J., and van Bergen, P. F., 2004b, Laboratory simulations of the transformation of emmer wheat as a result of heating, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 77, 957-73.
13. Braun, D. P., 1983, Pots as tools, in Archaeological hammers and theories (eds. A. S. Keene and J. Moore), 107-34, Academic Press, New York.
14. Bruni, S., Cariati, F., Casadio, F., and Toniolo, L., 1999, Spectrochemical characterization of micro-FTIR spectroscopy of blue pigments in different polychrome works of art, Vibrational Spectroscopy, 20, 15-25.
15. Buckley, S. A., Stott, A. W., and Evershed, R. P., 1999, Studies of organic residues from ancient Egyptian mummies using high temperature gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and purolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, Analyst, 124, 443-52.
16. Charters, S., Evershed, R. P., Goad, L. J., Heron, C., and Blinkhorn, P. W., 1993, Identification of an adhesive used to repair a Roman jar, Archaeometry, 35, 91-101.
17. Coblentz Society, I. June 2005, Evaluated infrared reference spectra, in NIST Chemistry WebBook (ed. W. G. Mallard), NIST Standard Reference Database Number 69, June 2005 release, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg MD, USA; http://webbook.nist.gov
18. Colombini, M. P., Giachi, G., Modugno, F., Pallecchi, P., and Ribechini, E., 2003, The characterization of paints and waterproofing materials from the shipwrecks found at the archaeological site of the Etruscan and Roman harbour of Pisa (Italy), Archaeometry, 35, 659-74.
19. Craig, O. E., and Collins, M. J., 2000, An improved method for the immunological detection of mineral bound protein using hydrofluoric acid and direct capture, Journal of Immunological Methods, 236, 89-97.
20. Craig, O. E., and Collins, M. J., 2002, The removal of protein from mineral surfaces: Implications for residue analysis of archaeological materials, Journal of Archaeological Science, 29, 1077-82.
21. Craig, O. E., Taylor, G., Mulville, J., Collins, M. J., and Parker Pearson, M., 2005, The identification of prehistoric dairying activities in the Western Isles of Scotland: An integrated biomolecular approach, Journal of Archaeological Science, 32, 91-103.
22. Craig, O. E., Mulville, J., Parker Pearson, M., Sokol, R., Gelsthorpe, K., Stacey, R., and Collins, M., 2000, Detecting milk proteins in ancient pots, Nature, 408, 312.
23. Derrick, M. R., Stulik, D., and Landry, J. M., 1999, Infrared spectroscopy in conservation science, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles.
24. Diallo, B., Vanhaelen, M., and Gosselain, O. P., 1995, Plant constituents involved in coating practices among traditional African potters, Experientia - Interdisciplinary Journal for Life Sciences, 51(1), 95-7.
25. Dudd, S. N., and Evershed, R. P., 1999, Unusual triterpenoid fatty acyl ester compounds of archaeological birch bark tars, Tetrahedron Letters, 40, 359-62.
26. Dybowski, C., Bai, S., and van Bramer, S., 2000, Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, Analytical Chemistry, 72(12), 1-7.
27. Dybowski, C., Bai, S., and van Bramer, S., 2002, Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, Analytical Chemistry, 74(12), 2713-18.
28. Dybowski, C., Bai, S., and van Bramer, S., 2004, Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, Analytical Chemistry, 76(12), 3263-8.
29. Eerkens, J., 2002, The preservation and identification of piñon resins by GC-MS in pottery from the Western Great Basin, Archaeometry, 44, 95-105.
30. Evershed, R. P., and Tuross, N., 1996, Proteinaceous material from potsherds and associated soils, Journal of Archaeological Science, 23, 429-36.
31. Evershed, R. P., Charters, S., and Quye, A., 1995, New methods for interpreting lipids preserved in archaeological pottery, Abstracts of Papers, American Chemical Society, vol. 209, no. 41.
32. Evershed, R. P., Dudd, S. N., Charters, S., Mottram, H., Stott, A. W., Raven, A. M., van Bergen, P. F., and Bland, H., 1999, Lipids as carriers of anthropogenic signals from prehistory, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series B, 354, 13-31.
33. Ghisalberti, E. L., and Godfrey, I. M., 1998, Application of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to the analysis of organic archaeological materials, Studies in Conservation, 43, 215-30.
34. Hally, D. J., 1983, Use alteration of pottery vessel surfaces: An important source of evidence in the identification of vessel function, North American Archaeologist, 4(1), 3-26.
35. Hayatsu, R., Botto, R. E., Scott, R. G., McBeth, R. L., and Winans, R. E., 1986, Evaluation of lignin and cellulose contributions to low-rank coal formation by alkaline cupric oxide oxidation, FUEL, 65, June, 821-6.
36. Hayatsu, R., McBeth, R. L., Scott, R. G., Botto, R. E., and Winans, R. E., 1984, Artificial coalification study: Preparation and characterization of synthetic macerals, Organic Geochemistry, 6, 463-71.
37. Hayek, E. W. H., Krenmayer, P., Lohninger, H., Jordis, U., Moche, W., and Sauter, E., 1990, Identification of archaeological and recent wood tar pitches using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and pattern recognition, Analytical Chemistry, 62, 2038-43.
38. Henrickson, E. F., 1990, Investigating ancient ceramic form and use: progress report and case study, in, The changing roles of ceramics in society: 26,000 B.P. to the present, vol. 5 (ed. W. D. Kingery), 83-117, American Ceramic Society, Westerville, OH.
39. Heron, C., and Evershed, R. P., 1993, The analysis of organic residues and the study of pottery use, in Archaeological method and theory 5 (ed. M. Schiffer), 247-87, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
40. Heron, C., Evershed, R. P., and Goad, L. J., 1991, Effects of migration of soil lipids on organic residues associated with buried potsherds, Journal of Archaeological Science, 18, 641-59.
41. Heron, C., Nemcek, N., Bonfield, K. M., Dixon, D., and Ottaway, B. S., 1994, The chemistry of Neolithic beeswax, Naturwissenschaften, 81(6), 266-9.
42. Hill, H. E., and Evans, J., 1988, Vegeculture of Solomon Islands prehistory from pottery residues, in Science and archaeology, proceedings of a conference on the application of scientific techniques to archaeology, Glasgow, September 1987 (eds. E. A. Slater and J. O. Tate), 449-58, BAR, Oxford.
43. Hill, H. E., and Evans, J., 1989, Crops of the Pacific, new evidence from organic residues in pottery, in Foraging and farming (eds. D. R. Harrison and G. C. Hillman), 418-25, Unwin Hyman, London.
44. Kobayashi, M., 1994, Use-alteration analysis of Kalinga pottery, interior carbon deposits of cooking pots, in (eds. W. A. Longacre and J. M. Skibo), Kalinga ethnoarchaeology, expanding archaeological method and theory, 127-68, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
45. Lambert, J. B., Shawl, C. E., and Stearns, J. A., 2000, Nuclear magnetic resonance in archaeology, Chemical Society Reviews, 29(3), 175-82.
46. Learner, T., 1998, The use of a diamond cell for the FTIR characterisation of paints and varnishes available to twentieth-century artists, in Postprints: Infrared and Raman User's Group Conference, London 1998 (ed. B. Pretze), 7-20, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
47. Low, M. J. D., and Baer, N. S., 1977, Application of infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy to problems in conservation, general principles, Studies in Conservation, 22, 116-28.
48. Maniatis, Y., and Tsirtsoni, Z., 2002, Characterization of a black residue in a decorated Neolithic pot from Dikili Tash, Greece: And unexpected result, Archaeometry, 44, 229-39.
49. McGovern, P. E., Glusker, D., Exner, L. J., and Voigt, M. M., 1996, Neolithic resinated wine, Nature, 381, 480-1.
50. Mills, B. J., 1999, Ceramics and social contexts of food consumption in the Northern Southwest, in Pottery and people - a dynamic interaction (ed. G. M. Feinman), 99-114, The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
51. Muntean, J. V., Stock, L. M., and Botto, R. E., 1988, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 76, 540.
52. Oudemans, T. F. M., and Boon, J. J., 1991, Molecular archaeology: analysis of charred (food) remains from prehistoric pottery by pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 20, 197-227.
53. Oudemans, T. F. M., and Boon, J. J., 1996, Traces of ancient vessel use: investigating prehistoric usage of four pot types by organic residue analysis using pyrolysis mass spectrometry, Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia, 26, 221-34.
54. Oudemans, T. F. M., and Boon, J. J., 2007, A comparative study of extractable lipids in the shards and surface residual crusts of ceramic vessels from Neolithic and Roman Iron Age settlements in The Netherlands, in Theory and practice of archaeological residue analysis (eds. H. Barnard and J. Eerkens), 99-124, BAR International Series, 1650, Oxford.
55. Oudemans, T. F. M., and Erhardt, D., 1996, Organic residue analysis in ceramic studies: Implications for conservation treatment and collections management, Archaeological conservation and its consequences (eds. A. Roy and P. Smith), 137-42, The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, London, Copenhagen.
56. Oudemans, T. F. M., Boon, J. J., and Botto, R. E., 1992, Tracing vessel use by combined spectroscopic studies of solid organic residues on prehistoric pottery, Archaeometry '92 Conference Abstracts, p. 25.
57. Oudemans, T. F. M., Boon, J. J., and Eijkel, G. B., 2006, Identifying biomolecular origins of solid organic residues preserved on Iron Age pottery using DTMS and MVA, Journal of Archaeological Science, 34, 173-93.
58. Oudemans, T. F. M., Eijkel, G. B., and Boon, J. J., 2005, DTMS and DTMS/ MS study of solid organic residues preserved on ancient vessels, in The 33rd International Symposium on Archaeometry, 22-26 April 2002 (eds. H. Kars and E. Burke), 501-5, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
59. Pastorova, I., Arisz, P. W., and Boon, J. J., 1993a, Preservation of d -glucose-oligosaccharides in cellulose chars, Carbohydrate Research, 248, 151-65.
60. Pastorova, I., Oudemans, T. F. M., and Boon, J. J., 1993b, Experimental polysaccharide chars and their 'fingerprints' in archaeological food residues, Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 25, 63-75.
61. Pastorova, I., Botto, R. E., Arisz, P. W., and Boon, J. J., 1994, Cellulose char structure: A combined analytical Py-GC-MS, FTIR and NMR study, Carbohydrate Research, 262, 27-47.
62. Regert, M., and Rolando, C., 2002, Identification of archaeological adhesives using direct inlet electron ionization mass spectrometry, Analytical Chemistry, 74(5), 965-75.
63. Regert, M., Vacher, S., Moulherat, C., and Decavallas, O., 2003, Adhesive production and pottery function during the Iron Age at the site of Grand Aunay (Sarthe, France), Archaeometry, 45, 101-20.
64. Rice, P. M., 1987, Pottery analysis: A sourcebook, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
65. Rice, P. M., 1990, Functions and uses of archaeological ceramics, in The changing roles of ceramics in society: 26,000 B.P. to the present (ed. W. D. Kingery), 1-10, The American Ceramic Society, Westville, OH.
66. Rottländer, R. C. A., and Schlichtherle, H., 1980, Gefäßinhalte - eine kurz kommentierte Bilbliographie, Archaeo-Physika, 7, 61-70.
67. Schmid, E. M., Knicker, H., Baumler, R., and Kogel-Knabner, I., 2001, Soil Science, 166, 569-84.
68. Sherriff, B. L., Tisdale, M. A., Sayer, B. G., Schwartz, H. P., and Knyf, M., 1995, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic and isotopic analysis of carbonized residues from subarctic Canadian prehistoric pottery, Archaeometry, 37, 95-111.
69. Sinopoli, C. M., 1999, Levels of complexity: Ceramic variability at Vijayanagara, in Pottery and people - a dynamic interaction (ed. G. M. Feinman), 115-36, The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
70. Skibo, J. M., 1992, Pottery function: A use-alteration perspective, Plenum Press, New York.
71. Skibo, J. M., and Blinman, E., 1999, Exploring the origins of pottery on the Colorado Plateau, in Pottery and people: A dynamic interaction (eds. J. M. Skibo and G. M. Feinman), 171-83, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
72. Stern, B., Heron, C., Corr, L., Serpico, M., and Bourriau, J., 2003, Compositional variations in aged and heated Pistacia resin found in Late Bronze Age Canaanite amphorae and bowls from Amarna, Egypt, Archaeometry, 45, 457-69.
73. Taylor, R. E., 2004, Setting up an C-13 CP/MAS experiment, in Concepts in magnetic resonance, part A (ed. R. E. Taylor), 37-49, University of California, Los Angeles.
74. Van der Weerd, J., 2002, Microscopic analysis of traditional oil paint, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
75. Van der Weerd, J., Heeren, R. M. A., and Boon, J. J., 2004a, Preparation methods and accessories for the infrared spectroscopic analysis of multi-layer paint films, Studies in Conservation, 49, 193-210.
76. Van der Weerd, J., Brammer, H., Boon, J. J., and Heeren, R. M. A., 2002, Fourier transform infrared microscopic imaging of an embedded paint cross-section, Applied Spectroscopy, 56(3), 275-83.
77. Van der Weerd, J., Smith, G. D., Firth, S., and Clark, R. J. H., 2004b, Identification of black pigments on prehistoric Southwest American potsherds by infrared and Raman microscopy, Journal of Archaeological Science, 31, 1429-37.
78. van Geel, B., Buurman, J., Brinkkemper, O., Schelvis, J., Aptroot, A., van Reenen, G., and Hakbijl, T., 2003, Environmental reconstruction of a Roman period settlement site in Uitgeest (The Netherlands), with special reference to coprophilous fungi, Journal of Archaeological Science, 30(7), 873-83.
79. Wang, Q., and Andrews, K. C., 2002, Technological investigation of the decorative coatings on Yangshao pottery from Henan, China, Archaeometry, 2002(2), 241-50.
80. Williams, D. H., and Fleming, I., 1966, Spectroscopic methods in organic chemistry, McGraw-Hill, London.
81. Woltering, P. J., 1982, Uitgeest-Groot Dorregeest, Archeologische Kroniek van Holland over 1981, I. Noord-Holland, 204-8.
82. Woltering, P. J., 1983, Uitgeest-Groot Dorregeest, Archeologische Kroniek van Holland over 1982, I. Noord-Holland, 214-20.
83. Woods, A. J., 1986, Form, fabric, and function: Some observations on the cooking pot in antiquity, in Technology and style (ed. W. D. Kingery), 157-72, The American Ceramic Society, Columbus, OH.