Abstract
Studies in organic archaeometry V1: Chemical analysis of organic material found in traces on an Neolithic terracotta idol statuette excavated in Lower Austria
Highlights
In 1989 a prehistoric settlement was excavated by the Prehistoric Department, Museum of Natural History, Vienna, at Brunn am Gebirge, a Lower Austrian village situated some 100 m south of the border of Vienna
Principal component analysis (PCA)[14] of these data projects the 50dimensional data space onto a plane resulting in a scatter plot containing a point for each sample; samples with similar concentration profiles are located close together (Figure 3)
It could be shown that the dark organic material taken from the grooves of the Neolithic terracotta statuette called Venus from Brunn am Gebirge is birch bark pitch, produced in prehistoric times by pyrolysis of birch bark
Summary
In 1989 a prehistoric settlement was excavated by the Prehistoric Department, Museum of Natural History, Vienna, at Brunn am Gebirge, a Lower Austrian village situated some 100 m south of the border of Vienna This organic material had to be identified with the intention to enable archaeologists a tentative interpretation of its prehistoric function
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