The remains of a Bronze Age cauldron and an artistic reconstruction of what it may have looked like thousands of years ago.iScience/Wilkin et al.
Posted on 08/22/2023 9:45:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Family feasts were the way to eat 5,000 years ago...
A study published on August 18 in the journal iScience found that residents of the Caucuses ate sheep, deer, goats, and members of the cow family during the Maykop period... Some millennia old cauldrons from archaeological sites in Eurasia were crucial in deciphering this ancient menu...
The study combines protein analysis and archaeology to explore the details of what was cooked in ancient cauldrons recovered from burial sites in Eurasia’s Caucasus region...
Many metal alloys have antimicrobial properties that help preserve proteins on cauldrons. Microbes in the dirt that would normally degrade the proteins left behind on surfaces made of stone or ceramic are stopped on metal alloys.
The team collected eight residue samples from seven metal cauldrons and successfully retrieved proteins from milk, muscle tissue, and blood. The presence of a protein called heat shock protein beta-1 (HSPB-1), indicates that the metal cauldrons were used to cook tissues of deer or bovine animals (cows, yaks, or water buffalo). They also recovered milk proteins from either goats or sheep, so these people likely also prepared dairy...
The cauldrons show signs of wear and tear from use, but also signs of extensive repair. Taking the time to repair the kitchen tools suggests that they were a valuable object that required skill to make. Such a cooking vessel could be an important symbol of social position or wealth...
In future studies, the team would like to explore the differences and similarities between a wider range of vessel types... get a better idea of what people in the region were doing and how food preparation differed regionally at this time.
(Excerpt) Read more at popsci.com ...
The remains of a Bronze Age cauldron and an artistic reconstruction of what it may have looked like thousands of years ago.iScience/Wilkin et al.
Emeril or Wolfgang?.....................
My last good cooking pot and NOW look what they’ve done!!
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Oh for the love of.....
It could also be, my granny cooked the best meals in this pot and every time I use it I think about her.
Or "she left the pot to me! Told you I was her favorite."
About fifty fifty.
They must not have had any “green weenies” in their society. Maybe the dinosaurs ate them before they reached adulthood due to their poor survival skills. /s (don’t know why I should need to put a sarc tag, but oh well, better than getting lectured on geologic history.)
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"Many metal alloys have antimicrobial properties that help preserve proteins on cauldrons. Microbes in the dirt that would normally degrade the proteins left behind on surfaces made of stone or ceramic are stopped on metal alloys."Then there's this banality...
"The cauldrons show signs of wear and tear from use, but also signs of extensive repair. Taking the time to repair the kitchen tools suggests that they were a valuable object that required skill to make.What? They just didn't toss the old cauldron and go to Cauldrons-R-Us or Cauldron City and pick up a new one? Color me shocked!
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They needed the Cauldron equivalent of “Spatula City”!
“They needed the Cauldron equivalent of “Spatula City”!”
Yep, that’s where “Cauldron City” came from.
“Such a cooking vessel could be an important symbol of social position or wealth...”
These were tribal nomads, so of course it was. Read T.E. Lawrence’s descriptions of the Arab nomads... they had a very similar lifestyle. Ordinary Arab tribesmen would get a portion of grain and oil/butter every day, and catch what wild game they could to supplement it. Only for feasts would the important men of the tribe slaughter livestock and cook them in these kind of vessels.
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