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From: Interpreting ancient food practices: stable isotope and molecular analyses of visible and absorbed residues from a year-long cooking experiment

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Isotope results for bulk stable carbon and nitrogen of charred macro-remains, carbonized thin-layer organic patina residues, and compound-specific carbon isotope analyses of absorbed lipids. The macro-remains are represented as circles. The first 8 macro-remains are from the primary recipe cooking events (sample collections 1–8); The recipes were changed for the final cooking events (sample collections 9–10). The organic patina residues are represented as triangles. Patina residue #1 was collected with the final primary recipe cooking event (sample collection 8) followed by patina residues which were collected after the recipe changed (sample collections 9–10). Four experiments did not have sufficient ingredients for the final replicate of the changed recipe and therefore their sample collections end with sample collection 9. Compound-specific δ13C values for the C16:0 fatty acids from lipid extracts from the cooking experiment pottery results are represented by squares.

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