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- Title
Direct Determination of the Contents of a Ceramic Bottle from the Moundville Site, Alabama.
- Authors
Reber, Eleanora A.; Blitz, John H.; Thompson, Claire E.
- Abstract
The article discusses the contents in a ceramic bottle discovered in an excavation of the Moundville Site in Alabama. The article describes the excavation of a completed subglobular bottle from a linear feature at the Moundville site in the Black Warrior Valley dating to around 1200 to 1500, the analysis of absorbed residue and soil in the bottle and its suggestion that soup or stew was originally in the bottle, and the remnants of tea, meat, and plant material in the bottle. Other subjects under discussion include the possibility that the contents of the bottle contained a ritual beverage used in religious ceremonies, the extraction of lipids from the residue in the potsherd, and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) techniques.
- Subjects
BLACK Warrior River Valley (Ala.); ALABAMA; PREHISTORIC containers; MOUNDVILLE Archaeological Park (Moundville, Ala.); BOTTLES; GAS chromatography/Mass spectrometry (GC-MS); MOUNDS (Archaeology); HISTORY; ANTIQUITIES
- Publication
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), 2010, Vol 35, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
0146-1109
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1179/mca.2010.003