National Museum of Denmark

International Protocol for the Study of Amorphous Charred Objects in Archaeology (IPSACO 1.0)

Abstract Archaeobotanists around the world increasingly recognise that, alongside commonly studied materials such as seeds, fruits, wood charcoal, and chaff, archaeobotanical samples also contain fragments of carbonised organic (and sometimes inorganic) matter that vary in shape...

Reconstructing institutional food practices in early Mesopotamia using multi-proxy biomolecular evidence

The world’s first public institutions developed in Mesopotamia during the fourth millennium BCE. There is broad consensus that food, its control, and (re-)distribution played a central role in these processes, but the composition of institutional meals remains poorly understood....

Evaluating commercial DNA extraction kits for bacterial community profiling in waterlogged archaeological wood

Understanding bacterial communities responsible for the slow biodeterioration of waterlogged archaeological wood is critical for reconstructing decay processes, predicting preservation trajectories, and informing conservation strategies. The extraction of sufficient and amplifiab...