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5β-Stigmastanol and Related 5β-Stanols as Biomarkers of Manuring: Analysis of Modern Experimental Material and Assessment of the Archaeological Potential

scientific article published in June 1997

A Stone Cresset from Dulverton House, Gloucester ⬇️

scientific article published on 3 July 2022

A new method for using18O to trace ozone deposition

scholarly article by Jens-Arne Subke et al published 15 April 2009 in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

A new stable isotope approach identifies the fate of ozone in plant-soil systems

article

A novel marine dietary indicator utilising compound-specific bone collagen amino acid δ13C values of ancient humans

Accurate compound-specific 14C dating of archaeological pottery vessels

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

Acute impact of agriculture on high-affinity methanotrophic bacterial populations

scientific article published on 29 April 2008

Age effects and the influence of varying proportions of terrestrial and marine dietary protein on the stable nitrogen-isotope compositions of pig bone collagen and soft tissues from a controlled feeding experiment

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Analysis of archaeal ether lipids in bovine faeces

scholarly article by F.L. Gill et al published June 2011 in Animal Feed Science and Technology

Ancient Biomolecules and Evolutionary Inference

scientific article published in 2018

Application of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry with selected ion monitoring to the urinanalysis of 4-pyridoxic acid

scientific article published on October 23, 1992

Archaeol as a methanogen biomarker in ombrotrophic bogs

Archaeol – a biomarker for foregut fermentation in modern and ancient herbivorous mammals?

Archaeol: an indicator of methanogenesis in water-saturated soils

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Archaeological frankincense

scientific article published in Nature

Archaeology: formulation of a Roman cosmetic

scientific article published in November 2004

Author Correction: Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe

correction of a scholarly article

Biomolecular and micromorphological analysis of suspected faecal deposits at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

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Biomolecular archaeology and lipids

scientific article published in June 1993

Biomolecular characteristics of an extensive tar layer generated during eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano, Montserrat, West Indies

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Birch bark tar in early Medieval England - Continuity of tradition or technological revival?

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Capillary gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of ecdysteroids

scientific article published on 01 March 1987

Carbon and chlorine isotope fractionation during microbial degradation of tetra- and trichloroethene

scientific article

Carbon input belowground is the major C flux contributing to leaf litter mass loss: Evidences from a 13C labelled-leaf litter experiment

Cereal grain, rachis and pulse seed amino acid δ15N values as indicators of plant nitrogen metabolism

scientific article published on 20 June 2013

Chemical preservation of plants and insects in natural resins

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 1998)

Chemistry of archaeological animal fats

scientific article

Cholesterol as a New Source of Palaeodietary Information: Experimental Approaches and Archaeological Applications

scientific article published in June 1999

Collembolan trophic preferences determined using fatty acid distributions and compound-specific stable carbon isotope values

scientific article published on 03 November 2005

Complex organic chemical balms of Pharaonic animal mummies

scientific article

Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Analysis in Ecology and Paleoecology

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Compound-specific <sup>15</sup>N stable isotope probing of N assimilation by the soil microbial biomass: a new methodological paradigm in soil N cycling

Compound-specific amino acid isotopic proxies for detecting freshwater resource consumption

Compound-specific amino acid isotopic proxies for distinguishing between terrestrial and aquatic resource consumption ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 April 2016

Compound-specific radiocarbon dating of lipid residues in pottery vessels: A new approach for detecting the exploitation of marine resources

scientific article published in January 2022

Compound-specific stable carbon isotopic detection of pig product processing in British Late Neolithic pottery

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Computerised gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric analysis of complex mixtures of alkyl porphyrins

scientific article published on 01 January 1984

Concordant monsoon-driven postglacial hydrological changes in peat and stalagmite records and their impacts on prehistoric cultures in central China

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Contents of dufour glands of workers of three species of Tetramorium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

scientific article published on 01 March 1986

Contrasting patterns of prehistoric human diet and subsistence in northernmost Europe

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

Crop manuring and intensive land management by Europe's first farmers

scientific article published on 15 July 2013

Dairying in antiquity. I. Evidence from absorbed lipid residues dating to the British Iron Age

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Dairying in antiquity. III. Evidence from absorbed lipid residues dating to the British Neolithic

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Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe

scientific article published on 27 July 2022

Detection and classification of atmospheric methane oxidizing bacteria in soil

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

Detection of palm fruit lipids in archaeological pottery from Qasr Ibrim, Egyptian Nubia.

scientific article published in March 2001

Detection of unconjugated and conjugated steroids in the ovary, eggs, and haemolymph of the decapod crustacean Nephrops norvegicus

scientific article published on 01 May 1989

Development of Alditol Acetate Derivatives for the Determination of 15N-Enriched Amino Sugars by Gas Chromatography-Combustion-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry

scientific article published on 22 February 2019

Development of N-acetyl methyl ester derivatives for the determination of delta13C values of amino acids using gas chromatography-combustion- isotope ratio mass spectrometry

scientific article published in November 2007

Direct chemical evidence for widespread dairying in prehistoric Britain

scientific article

Direct dating of archaeological pottery by compound-specific 14C analysis of preserved lipids

scientific article

Direct dating of pottery from its organic residues: new precision using compound-specific carbon isotopes

scientific article published in September 2008

Direct demonstration of milk as an element of archaeological economies

scientific article

Dual carbon-chlorine stable isotope investigation of sources and fate of chlorinated ethenes in contaminated groundwater

scientific article published on 3 October 2012

Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding

scientific article

Earliest direct evidence of plant processing in prehistoric Saharan pottery

scientific article

Earliest evidence for cheese making in the sixth millennium BC in northern Europe

scientific article

Earliest expansion of animal husbandry beyond the Mediterranean zone in the sixth millennium BC.

scientific article

Early Anthropogenic Soil Formation at Tofts Ness, Sanday, Orkney

scientific article published in August 1998

Early Neolithic Agriculture in County Mayo, Republic of Ireland: Geoarchaeology of the Céide Fields, Belderrig, and Rathlackan

Effects of hydrolysis on the delta13C values of individual amino acids derived from polypeptides and proteins

scientific article published in January 2003

Epicuticular wax components preserved in potsherds as chemical indicators of leafy vegetables in ancient diets

Estimating high-affinity methanotrophic bacterial biomass, growth, and turnover in soil by phospholipid fatty acid 13C labeling

scientific article published on June 2006

Evidence for demethylation of syringyl moieties in archaeological wood using pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry

scientific article

Evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kyBP climate event on Near Eastern early farmers

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Experimental approaches to the interpretation of absorbed organic residues in archaeological ceramics

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Extraction, characterization, and binding analysis of two pheromonally active ligands associated with major urinary protein of house mouse (Mus musculus).

scientific article

Fatty acid composition and change in Collembola fed differing diets: identification of trophic biomarkers

scientific article published on 25 February 2005

Finding Oxford’s medieval Jewry using organic residue analysis, faunal records and historical documents ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 February 2021

First dairying in green Saharan Africa in the fifth millennium BC.

scientific article

Four millennia of dairy surplus and deposition revealed through compound-specific stable isotope analysis and radiocarbon dating of Irish bog butters

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Free and bound fatty acid oxidation products in archaeological ceramic vessels

article by M. Regert et al published 1 October 1998 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

From the inside out: Upscaling organic residue analyses of archaeological ceramics

scientific article published in December 2017

Furness’s First Farmers: Evidence of Early Neolithic Settlement and Dairying in Cumbria ⬇️

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

GENERATION OF TWO NEW RADIOCARBON STANDARDS FOR COMPOUND-SPECIFIC RADIOCARBON ANALYSES OF FATTY ACIDS FROM BOG BUTTER FINDS

scientific article published in 2021

Gas chromatographic mass spectrometric detection of dihydroxy fatty acids preserved in the ‘bound’ phase of organic residues of archaeological pottery vessels ⬇️

scientific article published on July 15, 2011

Gas chromatographic, mass spectrometric and stable carbon isotopic investigations of organic residues of plant oils and animal fats employed as illuminants in archaeological lamps from Egypt

scientific article

High-resolution detection of adulteration of maize oil using multi-component compound-specific delta13C values of major and minor components and discriminant analysis

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

High-resolution mass spectrometric analysis of myo-inositol hexakisphosphate using electrospray ionisation Orbitrap.

scientific article published on 11 July 2017

High-resolution triacylglycerol mixture analysis using high-temperature gas chromatography / mass spectrometry with a polarizable stationary phase, negative ion chemical ionization, and mass-resolved chromatography

scientific article published on 01 April 1996

Horses for the dead: funerary foodways in Bronze Age Kazakhstan

scholarly article by Alan Outram published in March 2011

How long have adult humans been consuming milk?

scientific article

IDENTIFICATION OF AN ADHESIVE USED TO REPAIR A ROMAN JAR

Identification of animal fats via compound specific δ13C values of individual fatty acids: assessments of results for reference fats and lipid extracts of archaeological pottery vessels

scientific article published on 22 December 2002

Identification of point of specific enzymic cleavage of P1,P4-bis(5'-adenosyl) tetraphosphate by negative ion FAB mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 01 June 1989

Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the Northeast Atlantic archipelagos

scientific article (publication date: 7 April 2014)

Impact of modern cattle feeding practices on milk fatty acid stable carbon isotope compositions emphasise the need for caution in selecting reference animal tissues and products for archaeological investigations

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Interpreting early land management through compound specific stable isotope analyses of archaeological soils

scientific article published in July 1999

Interspecific variation in bulk tissue, fatty acid and monosaccharide delta(13)C values of leaves from a mesotrophic grassland plant community

scientific article published on 6 June 2008

Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids

scholarly article

Lipid preservation in Lindow Man

scientific article published in 1988

Lipids as carriers of anthropogenic signals from prehistory

scientific article (publication date: 29 January 1999)

Living off the land: Terrestrial-based diet and dairying in the farming communities of the Neolithic Balkans

scientific article published on 20 August 2020

Making the invisible visible: tracing the origins of plants in West African cuisine through archaeobotanical and organic residue analysis ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2022

Microbial lipid records of highly alkaline deposits and enhanced aridity associated with significant uplift of the Tibetan Plateau in the Late Miocene

scholarly article

Middle Neolithic pits and a burial at West Amesbury, Wiltshire

scientific article

Milk of ruminants in ceramic baby bottles from prehistoric child graves

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Milking the megafauna: Using organic residue analysis to understand early farming practice

Molecular coproscopy: dung and diet of the extinct ground sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis

scientific article

Molecular heterogeneity in the Major Urinary Proteins of the house mouse Mus musculus

scientific article

Monitoring the routing of dietary and biosynthesised lipids through compound--specific stable isotope (delta 13C) measurements at natural abundance

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

Muck ‘n’ molecules: organic geochemical methods for detecting ancient manuring

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Natural abundance stable carbon isotope evidence for the routing and de novo synthesis of bone FA and cholesterol ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2003

Neolithic dairy farming at the extreme of agriculture in northern Europe

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New Chemical Evidence for the Use of Combed Ware Pottery Vessels as Beehives in Ancient Greece

New chromatographic, mass spectrometric and stable isotope approaches to the classification of degraded animal fats preserved in archaeological pottery

scientific article published in February 1999

New insights into the subsistence economy of the Eneolithic Dereivka culture of the Ukrainian North-Pontic region through lipid residues analysis of pottery vessels

scientific article published in 2017

On the Beach: New Discoveries at Harlyn Bay, Cornwall

scholarly article by Andy M. Jones published in January 2011

Optimisation of derivatisation procedures for the determination of delta13C values of amino acids by gas chromatography/combustion/isotope ratio mass spectrometry

scientific article published in January 2007

Organic chemistry of balms used in the preparation of pharaonic meat mummies

scientific article (publication date: 17 December 2013)

Organic chemistry of embalming agents in Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman mummies

scientific article

Palaeoenvironmental modelling of δ(13) C and δ(15) N values in the North Atlantic Islands: understanding past marine resource use.

scientific article published in October 2012

Pastoralist Foodways Recorded in Organic Residues from Pottery Vessels of Modern Communities in Samburu, Kenya

scientific article published on 15 June 2018

Patterns of pastoralism in later Bronze Age Kazakhstan: new evidence from faunal and lipid residue analyses

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Phosphatisation of seeds and roots in a Late Bronze Age deposit at Potterne, Wiltshire, UK

scientific article published in October 2003

Physical and biological controls on the in situ kinetic isotope effect associated with oxidation of atmospheric CH4 in mineral soils.

scientific article published in November 2008

Pine wood origin for pitch from the Mary Rose

scientific article published in Nature

Post-Mortem Transformations of Sterols in Bog Body Tissues

scientific article published in September 1994

Practical Considerations in High-Precision Compound-Specific Radiocarbon Analyses: Eliminating the Effects of Solvent and Sample Cross-Contamination on Accuracy and Precision

scientific article published on 07 September 2018

Practical considerations in the determination of compound-specific amino acid δ15N values in animal and plant tissues by gas chromatography-combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry, following derivatisation to their N-acetylisopropyl esters

scientific article published in October 2012

Practical considerations in the gas chromatography/combustion/isotope ratio monitoring mass spectrometry of 13C-enriched compounds: detection limits and carryover effects

scientific article

Preservation of Fossil Seeds From a 10th Century AD Cess Pit at Coppergate, York

scientific article published in September 2001

Probing dietary change of the Kwädąy Dän Ts'ìnchį individual, an ancient glacier body from British Columbia: I. Complementary use of marine lipid biomarker and carbon isotope signatures as novel indicators of a marine diet

Probing dietary change of the Kwädąy Dän Ts'ìnchį individual, an ancient glacier body from British Columbia: II. Deconvoluting whole skin and bone collagen δ13C values via carbon isotope analysis of individual amino acids

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Processing of milk products in pottery vessels through British prehistory

scholarly article by M.S. Copley published in December 2005

Processing palm fruits in the Nile Valley — biomolecular evidence from Qasr Ibrim

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QUANTIFICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF LIPID IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL CERAMICS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SAMPLING POTSHERDS FOR ORGANIC RESIDUE ANALYSIS AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF VESSEL USE

Quantifying dietary macronutrient sources of carbon for bone collagen biosynthesis using natural abundance stable carbon isotope analysis

scientific article published in June 2006

Radiocarbon Dating and Dietary Stable Isotope Analysis of Kwaday Dän Ts'inchí

Reaction of proteins with vehicle exhaust soot

scientific article published on 01 May 1996

Reconciling organic residue analysis, faunal, archaeobotanical and historical records: Diet and the medieval peasant at West Cotton, Raunds, Northamptonshire

scientific article published in July 2019

Regional asynchronicity in dairy production and processing in early farming communities of the northern Mediterranean

scientific article

Regional diversity in subsistence among early farmers in Southeast Europe revealed by archaeological organic residues

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Remarkable preservation of biomolecules in ancient radish seeds

scientific article published on 01 May 1996

Response of carbon cycle to drier conditions in the mid-Holocene in central China.

scientific article

Runoff- and erosion-driven transport of cattle slurry: linking molecular tracers to hydrological processes

scientific article published in 2016

Runoff- and erosion-driven transport of cattle slurry: linking molecular tracers to hydrological processes

Seasonal variations in bulk tissue, fatty acid and monosaccharide delta(13)C values of leaves from mesotrophic grassland plant communities under different grazing managements.

scientific article published on 14 January 2010

Short- and long-term foraging and foddering strategies of domesticated animals from Qasr Ibrim, Egypt

scholarly article by Mark S. Copley et al published September 2004 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Simulation Experiments for Determining the Use of Ancient Pottery Vessels: the Behaviour of Epicuticular Leaf Wax During Boiling of a Leafy Vegetable

Soil organic matter and the extracellular microbial matrix show contrasting responses to C and N availability

scientific article published on September 2015

Source Apportionment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Central European Soils with Compound-Specific Triple Isotopes (δ(13)C, Δ(14)C, and δ(2)H).

scientific article published on 23 June 2015

Spices in the display environment

Stable isotope switching (SIS): a new stable isotope probing (SIP) approach to determine carbon flow in the soil food web and dynamics in organic matter pools.

scientific article published in April 2012

Strategy for the analysis of steryl esters from plant and animal tissues

scientific article published on 01 July 1987

Strontium concentration, radiogenic (87Sr/86Sr) and stable (δ88Sr) strontium isotope systematics in a controlled feeding study

scholarly article by J. Lewis et al published January 2017 in Science and Technology of Archaeological Research

Studies of organic residues from ancient Egyptian mummies using high temperature-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and sequential thermal desorption-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

scientific article published in April 1999

Temperature proxy data and their significance for the understanding of pyroclastic density currents

scholarly article

The Study of Molecular Markers of Human Activity: The Use of Coprostanol in the Soil as an Indicator of Human Faecal Material

scientific article (publication date: September 1994)

The beginnings of dairying as practised by pastoralists in ‘green’ Saharan Africa in the 5th millennium BC

The earliest horse harnessing and milking

scientific article

The effect of manuring on cereal and pulse amino acid δ(15)N values

scientific article published on 13 March 2014

The influence of varying proportions of terrestrial and marine dietary protein on the stable carbon-isotope compositions of pig tissues from a controlled feeding experiment

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The molecules of meals: new insight into Neolithic foodways

scientific article

The organic preservation of fossil arthropods: an experimental study

scientific article (publication date: 7 November 2006)

The potential of biomarker proxies to trace climate, vegetation, and biogeochemical processes in peat: A review

scientific article

The significance of petroleum bitumen in ancient Egyptian mummies

scientific article

Tracing carbon and nitrogen microbial assimilation in suspended particles in freshwaters

scientific article published in 2022

Tree-rings reveal two strong solar proton events in 7176 and 5259 BCE

scholarly article

Two episodes of microbial change coupled with Permo/Triassic faunal mass extinction

scientific article

Untargeted characterisation of dissolved organic matter contributions to rivers from anthropogenic point sources using direct-infusion and high-performance liquid chromatography/Orbitrap mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 02 November 2019

Use of a 700 MHz NMR Microcryoprobe for the Identification and Quantification of Exogenous Carbon in Compounds Purified by Preparative Capillary Gas Chromatography for Radiocarbon Determinations.

scientific article

Variation in bulk tissue, fatty acid and monosaccharide δ13C values between autotrophic and heterotrophic plant organs

scientific article published on 26 August 2011

What was a mortarium used for? Organic residues and cultural change in Iron Age and Roman Britain

scientific article published in 2011

Widespread exploitation of the honeybee by early Neolithic farmers

scientific article

Widespread exploitation of the honeybee by early Neolithic farmers

scientific article published in Nature

delta 13C analysis of cholesterol preserved in archaeological bones and teeth

scientific article published in December 1996

δ13C analyses of vegetable oil fatty acid components, determined by gas chromatography–combustion–isotope ratio mass spectrometry, after saponification or regiospecific hydrolysis ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 May 1998

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