VelloreKeeladi pottery gives South India’s first chemical proof of dairy.
It also marks the first recovery of a linear A-type procyanidin tetramer from any archaeological context.
Mass spectrometry and X-ray micro-computed tomography found the molecule beside lipid profiles of cow’s milk in sherds from Keeladi and Gottiprolu.
The team says its method can detect heavily degraded organic biomarkers in tropical sites.
How each outlet framed it
- Nature
- identifies a linear A-type procyanidin tetramer as the first archaeological recovery of the molecule, paired with cow's milk lipids from Keeladi and Gottiprolu
Sources: Nature