@article{dc64677b25f44476a34b01a2cb805c27,
title = "Variation in pottery use across the Early Neolithic in the Barcelona plain",
abstract = "Differences in pottery technology and style between the Cardial and Epicardial periods have been used to study the social dynamics behind the spread of agriculture and pastoralism in the northwestern Mediterranean. This paper presents new data regarding pottery use from Early Neolithic settlements in the Barcelona plain in the sixth and fifth millennia cal BC. The recovery of organic residues from a set of 74 ceramic sherds provides the opportunity to detect changes in pottery use. The exclusive presence of non-ruminant adipose products in Cardial vessels and the sole identification of dairy products in Late Epicardial vessels are accompanied by the detection of high temperature biomarkers only in the latter period. These results suggest that, at least on a local scale, the two pottery types may have been used differently in activities transforming terrestrial animal products.",
keywords = "Barcelona plain, Cardial, Early Neolithic, Epicardial, Organic residue analysis",
author = "A. Breu and A. G{\'o}mez-Bach and C. Heron and A. Rosell-Mel{\'e} and M. Molist",
note = "Funding Information: Emili Revilla, at the Museu d{\textquoteright}Hist{\`o}ria de la Ciutat de Barcelona, is thanked for facilitating the access to the samples. Beatriz Bastos, Ben Stern, at the University of Bradford and Rebecca Stacey and Christopher Musell at The British Museum are thanked for their support whilst performing laboratory work. We also thank the excavation teams from both archaeological sites. Adri{\`a} Breu has been funded by an FPU grant (2014/00957) and a {\textquoteleft}La Caixa{\textquoteright} fellowship LCF/BQ/EU14/10310064. Analyses were partially funded by the following I + D projects awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (HAR2016-78416-P and HAR2013-43624-P). Anna G{\'o}mez Bach, Miquel Molist and Adri{\`a} Breu are members of the 2017 SGR 1302 Research Group recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya. Pau Comes is acknowledged for the GC-C-IRMS analyses at the ICTA-UAB laboratories (partially funded by the MINECO Maria de Maeztu award MDM-2015-0552). Anu Thompson is thanked for the GC-C-IRMS analyses at Liverpool University. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE part of Springer Nature.",
year = "2021",
month = feb,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1007/s12520-021-01296-2",
language = "English",
volume = "13",
journal = "Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences",
issn = "1866-9557",
number = "3",
}