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Julia Becher

Exploring the artefactual record of feasting during the Orcadian Late Neolithic 

Supervisor:

Oliver Craig

Martine Regert

Funding:

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement ChemArch No 956351

 

Summary of research project:

My PhD project within the ChemArch network (ESR9) aims to investigate the function of numerous ceramics from the Ness of Brodgar UNESCO world heritage site, Orkney, Scotland, using Organic Residue Analysis (ORA). The project intends to explore the use of Neolithic ceremonial complexes by comparing pottery of large-scale communal feasting with the more day-to-day use of vessels for storage, cooking and food consumption. The extraction of lipids using GC-MS and GC-c-IRMS is a powerful tool in order to understand pottery use beyond purely typological grounds. Other find categories will be included to contextualize the ORA results on a spatial and chronological scale. 



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Contact details

Julia Becher
Bioarch Office, Department of Archaeology
University of York
Bioarch
York
YO10 5DD