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SUMMARY:Meat\, milk and plant oils: characterising products in Early Bronz
 e Age pottery from the Oman Peninsula through lipid residue analysis - Aks
 hyeta Suryanarayan\, University of Cambridge\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Rosie Crawford
DESCRIPTION:This event is in person but livestreamed free here: https://zo
 om.us/meeting/register/tJIkd-GuqDMpHdSEt5XRFSz5zH6iKXfuB86L\n\nDuring the 
 Early Bronze Age (EBA) in the Oman peninsula\, the Umm an-Nar period (c. 2
 700-2000 BC) marked the development of many ‘firsts’ in the region. In
 creasing sedentism and the establishment of settlements with monumental st
 one or mudbrick ‘towers’ and associated mudbrick constructions develop
 ed in combination with the growth of oasis agriculture and the rise of a s
 hared regional material culture and local pottery\, stone and copper indus
 tries.  There was also an increase in the scale and intensity of long-dist
 ance exchange networks throughout the Persian Gulf in which Umm an-Nar com
 munities played an important role. This talk will present the results of l
 ipid residue analysis of pottery produced at local and regional scales\, a
 s well as imported pottery coming from Mesopotamia\, SE Iran and the Indus
  Civilisation\, from sites in the Oman Peninsula to explore what kinds of 
 organic products were used and/or consumed in daily subsistence activities
 \, as well as what products may have been moved from afar. Lipids were ext
 racted from pottery and analysed via Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry 
 (GC-MS)\, and a subset was analysed via Gas Chromatography-combustion-Isot
 opic Ratio Mass Spectrometry (GC-c-IRMS) to distinguish between terrestria
 l and marine sources and dairy and ruminant carcass fats. The results high
 light the importance of pastoral products\, such as meat and dairy product
 s\, but also suggest the presence of plant oils and other plant products i
 n different vessels. The direct identification and characterisation of arc
 haeologically ‘invisible’ products (cf. Crawford 1973) that were conta
 ined in ceramic vessels using sensitive chemical techniques provide a new 
 means to interrogate the relationship between people\, the environment and
  networks of exchange in the Oman Peninsula.\n\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research\, D
 owning Site
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