Chemical analysis of pottery reveals the transition from a maritime to a plant-based economy in pre-colonial coastal Brazil by Marjolein Admiraal, Andre C. Colonese, Rafael G. Milheira, Dione da Rocha Bandeira, Alexandro Demathe, Adriana M. Pereira dos Santos, Thiago Fossile, Helen M. Talbot, Manon Bondetti, Alexandre Lucquin, Javier Montalvo-Cabrera, Luciano Prates, Alejandro Serna, Oliver E. Craig

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Detection of dairy products from multiple taxa in Late Neolithic pottery from Poland: an integrated biomolecular approach by Miranda Evans, Jasmine Lundy, Alexandre Lucquin, Richard Hagan, Łukasz Kowalski, Jarosław Wilczyńki, Penny Bickle, Kamil Adamczak, Oliver E. Craig, Harry K. Robson, Jessica Hendy

“…This culinary process is linked to key arguments surrounding the evolution of lactase persistence in prehistory. Despite extensive evidence indicating the presence of dairy products in ceramics in the European Neolithic, questions remain about the nature and extent of milk (and lactose) processing and consumption. …”
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Lipid residues in ancient pastoralist pottery from Kazakhstan reveal regional differences in cooking practices by Natsuki Murakami, Akhan Onggaruly, Saule Rakhimzhanova, Edward A. Standall, Helen M. Talbot, Alexandre Lucquin, Miho Suzuki, Arhat Karimagambetov, Abdinur Nuskabay, Sang-Won Nam, Oliver E. Craig, Shinya Shoda, Shinya Shoda

“…Indeed, scholars have increasingly emphasized the role that “food globalization in prehistory” has played in defining this period. In the mountain foothills of Kazakhstan, culinary traditions from across Eurasia were combined through the use of Southwest Asian wheat, barley, and livestock (cattle, sheep, and goats) with East Asian foxtail and broomcorn millets. …”
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