Pottery production, like fermentation, is a highly skilled technology that requires the careful selection and transformation of raw ingredients under controlled conditions. Although precise drivers for invention dispersal ceramic containers are uncertain, it clear even earliest pottery had culinary role processing foods. We now know from organic residue analysis early was used to process only r...

this paper deals with pottery assemblage from the chalcolithic phase of the site of gilund in rajsamand district ofrajasthan. though pottery from this site has been studied earlier (shinde et al 2002), however there was no literatureavailable on the ceramic chronology of gilund with layers ascertained to it. this paper tries to build up a ceramicchronology in the site in order to indentify diff...

Abstract Decorated Italo-Mycenaean (IM) pottery, a high-status class found and made over three centuries from the Italian Late Middle Bronze Age onwards, was subject of large archaeological archaeometric enquiry published by present authors in 2014. The paper focuses on identifying IM’s centres production. results chemical analysis IM using mainly ICP-ES make strong case for regional production...

Soil ingestion can be a major route of human exposure to many immobile soil contaminants. The present risk assessment is based on toxicity studies in which contaminants are typically ingested in liquid or food matrices. The difference in bioavailability of contaminants ingested in a soil matrix is not taken into account. To become bioavailable, contaminants first need to become bioaccessible, i...