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Abstract
The analysis of lipids (fats, oils and waxes) absorbed within archaeological pottery has revolutionized the study of past diets and culinary practices. However, this technique can lack taxonomic and tissue specificity and is often unable to disentangle signatures resulting from the mixing of different food products. Here, we extract ancient proteins from ceramic vessels from the West Mound of the key early farming site of Çatalhöyük in Anatolia, revealing that this community processed mixes of cereals, pulses, dairy and meat products, and that particular vessels may have been reserved for specialized foods (e.g., cow milk and milk whey). Moreover, we demonstrate that dietary proteins can persist on archaeological artefacts for at least 8000 years, and that this approach can reveal past culinary practices with more taxonomic and tissue-specific clarity than has been possible with previous biomolecular techniques.
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1 Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany; BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK
2 BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK
3 Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
4 Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany; School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
5 Target Discovery Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
6 BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK; Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
7 Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
8 School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
9 Department of Anthropology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
10 BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK; Department of Anthropology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
11 Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
12 EvoGenomics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
13 Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
14 BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK; EvoGenomics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark