Guides and good practices
Organic Residue Analysis and Archaeology: Guidance for Good Practice
Useful online tools
Lipid Maps – a free resource for lipid analysis. This site provides an introduction to the chemistry and biochemistry of individual lipid classes, together with a compendium of information on mass spectrometry of fatty acids.
OpenChrom® – an open source software for chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy. Data from different systems can be imported and analysed, making this useful vendor-independent software.
Media
“Organic residue analysis in archaeology: a brief introduction” – Dr. Oliver Craig (YouTube)
“Method of pottery lipid residue analysis and practice in Kazakhstan”, by Dr. Shinya Shoda (in Japanese with English subtitles) (YouTube)
Recent major reviews
Roffet-Salque, M., Dunne, J., Altoft, D. T., Casanova, E., Cramp, L. J., Smyth, J., Whelton HL, and Evershed, R. P. (2017) From the inside out: Upscaling organic residue analyses of archaeological ceramics. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 16:627-640.
Craig, O. E., Saul, H. and Spiteri, C. (2020). Residue Analysis. In: Richards, M. P. and Britton, K. (Eds). Archaeological Science. An Introduction. 14. Amsterdam Oxford Waltham: Elsevier. pp. 319–339.
Whelton, H. L., Hammann, S., Cramp, L. J. E., Dunne, J., Roffet-Salque, M. and Evershed, R. P. (2021). A call for caution in the analysis of lipids and other small biomolecules from archaeological contexts. Journal of archaeological science, 132, 105397.
Cubas, M., Becher, J., Chiang, Y., Dekker, J. A. A., Di Muro, A., Doliente, J. E. and Craig, O. E. (2024). Ceramics: Organic Residue Analysis. In: Rehren, T. and Nikita, E. (Eds). Encyclopedia of Archaeology (Second Edition). 2B: Laboratory Analyses. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Academic Press. pp. 398–405.
