Data supporting PhD thesis, "What's cooking in the Indus Civilisation? Investigating Indus food through ceramic lipid residue analysis"

Abstract

These data files supplement the analyses conducted as part of my PhD research entitled 'What’s cooking in the Indus Civilisation? Investigating Indus food through ceramic lipid residue analysis' (2019).This thesis investigates which products were processed in ceramic vessels used by populations of the Indus Civilisation, South Asia’s first urban civilisation. It examines vessel-usage in urban and rural Indus settlements located in northwest India during the urban period (c. 2600/2500–1900 B.C.), and identifies whether changes in vessel-use occurred in the post-urban period (c. 1900–1300 B.C.) by using lipid residue analysis. The following data has uploaded in the repository: 1) Images of chromatograms obtained 2) GC-c-IRMS data calibration and corrections 3) Data files to run R code 4) R code for all visualisations and statistical analyses (to be opened in R) For original GC-MS data of lipid extracts from Indus vessels, please contact the author (files can only be opened with Agilent ChemStation or Masshunter software).