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Lipid residue analysis of ceramics from Hude I: New data to understand the transition to farming

Sample
ID
Find number
Vessel type
Vessel form
Vessel
part
Decoration
Other
features
Rim diameter
(cm)
Weight
(mm)
Wall thickness
(mm)
Main temper
material
HU-01
31206
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
no
20
123.7
10
grit-sand
HU-02
31840(3A)
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
no
knob
15
87.7
9
sand?
HU-03
30655
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
base
no
200.9
8
fine sand / grit
HU-04
31233
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
base
no
172.2
9
grit-sand //quartz
HU-05
31145a
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
yes
26
104.5
6
grit (granite)
HU-06
31145b
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
base
no
101.6
6
grit (granite)
HU-07
30984
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
body
no
96.6
7
grit-sand?
HU-08
31176
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
no
17.5
107.9
8
grit-sand
HU-09
31224/13224
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
yes
28
122.4
11
grit-sand
HU-10
31029/31426
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
yes
15
194.8
8
grit
HU-11
30996
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
no
>20/25
166.4
9
flint
HU-12
30974
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
yes
141.2
8
grit? quartz
HU-13
31359
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
body
no
handle
45.7
8
grit-sand
HU-14
30979c
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
yes
30.1
8
grit-sand
HU-15
30979a
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
body
no
52.3
7
grit-sand
HU-16
30985
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
yes
19
56.8
7
flint // granite?
HU-17
30972
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
yes
26
274.1
8
grit-sand (granite)
HU-18
30997
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
yes
handle
31/32
175.7
9
grit-sand
HU-19
31157
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
body
no
knob
127.7
6
sand?
HU-20
31273
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
body
no
handle
99.5
5
grit-sand?
HU-21
30959 a+b
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
no
27
78.6
9
grit (granite)
HU-22
9125A
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
body
yes
knob
19.7
7
grit-sand?
HU-23
9258
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
no
~20
179.0
9
grit-sand
HU-24
9452
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
body
no
89.5
11
grit (granite)
HU-25
4532
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
body
no
161.3
10
flint//grit-quartz?
HU-26
3002+30352
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim/
body
yes
17.5
19.0
6
grog?
HU-27
29191
Cooking pot
Deep bowl
rim
yes
23
131.9
8
grog // grit-sand?
HU-28
22900
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
no
14-15
61.9
8
grit
HU-29
30669
Cooking pot
Deep bowl
rim
yes
11
90.6
9
sand?
HU-30
30732
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
body/
base
yes
10*
130.1
6
grit-sand
HU-31
30727
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
base
no
84.2
7
sand
HU-32
29928
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
yes
29/30
198.0
8
flint // quartz?
HU-33
28742
Cooking pot
Deep bowl
rim
no
>20
225.0
7
grit? quartz
HU-34
22522/22552/
25649
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
rim
yes
25
139.9
6
grit
HU-35
30644
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
body
no
89.7
8
grit
HU-36
29937
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
body
no
186.2
8
grit-sand
HU-37
30733
Cooking pot
S-shaped/carinated vessel
base
(flat)
no
135.0
7
flint? grit?

"The sample selection was based on the morphological and decorative variability of the pottery fragments available to us at the time of the research, therefore it is not representative
for the whole Hude I pottery assemblage.
*Based on the complete drawing of the pot in Kampffmeyer 1991: Table 5 (554).

Table 1 Sampled pottery information.

There is no significant difference between the
fabric of the S-shaped / carinated vessels and the
deep bowls. The most common inclusion for all the
selected assemblage is grit, although there is also a
rare appearance of sand, flint, and grog. While the
S-shaped / carinated vessels present examples of both
extremely coarse pottery with no surface treatment
and relatively fine pottery with smoothed, polished,
or burnished surface, all three bowls indicate fine
pottery with polished or burnished surface treat-
ment.

Lipid extraction
Lipids were extracted by using the established acidified
methanol protocol (Craig et al. 2013; Papakosta et al.
2015). Briefly, an internal standard (alkane C34, 10
pL) and 4 mL methanol was added to 1 gr of ceramic
powder. The suspended solution was sonicated for
15 min, then acidified with concentrated sulphuric acid
(H2SO4, 800 pL) and heated for 4 hours at 70 °C. Lipids
were sequentially extracted with n-hexane (2 mL x 3).
The extracts were combined into vials, and copper