Day of Archaeology - What happened next?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post as part of the Day of Archaeology which aims to give people an insight into the variety of work that archaeoklogists around the world do. There are some really fascinating stories on there, and it was great to see a few posts from fellow Çatalhöyük types ( faunal team and human remains team ) on what they are up to this year. This is the first season in a long time that I won't be heading out this summer. We are just too busy finishing off all the lab work for Feeding Stonehenge. My post outlined a typical day in the bioarchaeology lab at the University of York, featuring more of those poetry inspiring pot sherds from Durrington Walls. This is just a little follow on to explain what happened next.... So, we got to the point of putting the extracted samples on the GC/MS which works something like this: Step 4 actually involves a lot of manual checking of the data to make sure what the computer thinks the lipids are is correct - it c...