Cooking activities during the Middle Ages: Organic residues in ceramic vessels from the Sant'Antimo Church (Piombino-Central Italy)

Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 108-115

  Salvini, Laura ^a   Pecci, Alessandra ^a   Giorgi, Gianluca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

APCI; Archaeology; Cultural heritage; GC MS; Mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIODEGRADATION; FOOD PRESERVATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CERAMIC VESSELS; CULTURAL HERITAGE; ORGANIC RESIDUES;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

DIACYLGLYCEROL; DITERPENOID; FATTY ACID; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BROTH DILUTION; CERAMICS; COOKING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ITALY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VEGETABLE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 39149142259     PISSN: 10765174     EISSN: 10969888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jms.1283     Document Type: Article

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