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Sophisticated analytical techniques have had mixed results in archaeology. Some techniques, like carbon-14 dating, have become commonplace—and indispensable—in archaeological analysis, whereas others come and go with little effect. Part of this problem can be attributed to the lack of communication between archaeologists and those in the “hard” sciences; many new techniques are simply not applied to issues that interest archaeologists (see De Atley and Bishop 1991 for a discussion of these issues). But I am certain that most archaeologists would immediately see the usefulness of a technique that could determine what was cooked or stored in a ceramic vessel.
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Skibo, J.M. (1992). Use Alteration: Absorbed Residues. In: Pottery Function. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1179-7_5
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