"Revolutionary new method for dating pottery"

[Blattspitze]

"The trick was isolating individual fat compounds from food residues, perhaps left by cooking meat or milk, protected within the pores of prehistoric cooking pots. The team brought together the latest high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass spectrometry technologies to design a new way of isolating the fatty acids and checking they were pure enough for accurate dating."
https://phys.org/news/2020-04-revolutio ... toric.html
Original-Artikel:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2178-z