2016
DOI: 10.1038/srep38767
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First molecular and isotopic evidence of millet processing in prehistoric pottery vessels

Abstract: Analysis of organic residues in pottery vessels has been successful in detecting a range of animal and plant products as indicators of food preparation and consumption in the past. However, the identification of plant remains, especially grain crops in pottery, has proved elusive. Extending the spectrum is highly desirable, not only to strengthen our understanding of the dispersal of crops from centres of domestication but also to determine modes of food processing, artefact function and the culinary significa… Show more

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“…Miliacin, a compound found in broomcorn millet, Panniacum millacin (Heron, Shoda et al 2016) was absent in all the samples analysed. This contrasts with evidence of millet seed impressions on Yunggimun pottery sherds (Obata & Manabe 2014) and with the results from the Bronze Age Korean site of Majeon-ri (ca 2.8-2.5k calBP), where seven from fifteen potsherds analysed contained miliacin (Heron, Shoda et al 2016).…”
Section: Evidence For Plant Processing?mentioning
confidence: 88%
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“…Miliacin, a compound found in broomcorn millet, Panniacum millacin (Heron, Shoda et al 2016) was absent in all the samples analysed. This contrasts with evidence of millet seed impressions on Yunggimun pottery sherds (Obata & Manabe 2014) and with the results from the Bronze Age Korean site of Majeon-ri (ca 2.8-2.5k calBP), where seven from fifteen potsherds analysed contained miliacin (Heron, Shoda et al 2016).…”
Section: Evidence For Plant Processing?mentioning
confidence: 88%
“…Miliacin, a compound found in broomcorn millet, Panniacum millacin (Heron, Shoda et al 2016) was absent in all the samples analysed. This contrasts with evidence of millet seed impressions on Yunggimun pottery sherds (Obata & Manabe 2014) and with the results from the Bronze Age Korean site of Majeon-ri (ca 2.8-2.5k calBP), where seven from fifteen potsherds analysed contained miliacin (Heron, Shoda et al 2016). Although, an absolute absence of plants in the early Korean pottery cannot be inferred, particularly due to the low N and lipid content of many wild plant species available at this time, so far there is little evidence to support the notion that plant processing was a major driver for the adoption of pottery in Korea or indeed elsewhere in East Asia (Lucquin, Gibbs et al 2016;Craig et al 2013).…”
Section: Evidence For Plant Processing?mentioning
confidence: 88%
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“…While this approach is very powerful to be used in a more targeted manner, it depends on the investigator's prior knowledge of specific compound classes and their mass spectrometric behaviour to select appropriate ion traces, and unknown compounds will often be missed completely. This is important since the diagnostic potential of minor compounds over more ubiquitous major compounds is becoming increasingly recognised 12,18,22 . Furthermore, this approach can be very tedious and time consuming for a high number of samples and compounds (or compound classes) that need to be investigated.…”
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“…Furthermore, isotopic and biomolecular evidence from this period suggests the preparation and consumption of food that included millet (e.g. Lightfoot et al 2013; Heron et al 2016).
Figure 1Modern broomcorn millet plant and grains, and a potsherd from the Late Bronze Age site of Bruszczewo, Poland, showing imprints of millet grains (photograph courtesy of S. Jagiolla, UFG Kiel).
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confidence: 99%