Mass spectrometry (MS) is an essential tool in the field of biomolecular archeology to
characterize amorphous organic residues preserved in ancient ceramic vessels. Animal fats …

The pressures on honeybee (Apis mellifera) populations, resulting from threats by modern
pesticides, parasites, predators and diseases, have raised awareness of the economic …

The theory of fresco as the standard painting technique in Roman wall paintings, formulated
in the mid-1960s by Paolo Mora and Laura Mora and Paul Philippot, has enjoyed general …

The second edition of The Biomarker Guide is a fully updated and expanded version of this
essential reference. Now in two volumes, it provides a comprehensive account of the role …

List of figures p. ix List of tables p. xii Preface p. xiii Part I The Role of Analytical Chemistry in
Archaeology p. 1 1 Archaeology and Analytical Chemistry p. 3 1.1 The history of analytical …

In the framework of a study on the Egyptian ceramic vessels belonging to the archaeological
collection of the Istituto Papirologico Vitelli (Florence), the characterisation of organic …

Although organic materials are very sensitive to biochemical alteration processes, they may
be preserved for millennia in various archaeological contexts. Remains of adhesives made …

Presented in this paper is a new method for the identification of tartaric acid as a wine
marker in archaeological residues from Egyptian vessels using liquid chromatography with …

Evidence of prehistoric dentistry has been limited to a few cases, the most ancient dating
back to the Neolithic. Here we report a 6500-year-old human mandible from Slovenia whose …

Pyrolysis (Py) with in situ derivatisation with hexamethyldisilazane–gas chromatography–
mass spectrometry (GC–MS) and a gas chromatography–mass spectrometry procedure …