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SUBMITTER: Villa P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4488428 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Villa Paola P Pollarolo Luca L Degano Ilaria I Birolo Leila L Pasero Marco M Biagioni Cristian C Douka Katerina K Vinciguerra Roberto R Lucejko Jeannette J JJ Wadley Lyn L
PloS one 20150630 6
Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, proteomic and scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM/EDS) analyses of residue on a stone flake from a 49,000 year-old layer of Sibudu (South Africa) indicate a mixture of ochre and casein from milk, likely obtained by killing a lactating wild bovid. Ochre powder production and use are documented in Middle Stone Age South African sites but until now there has been no evidence of the use of milk as a binder. Our analyses sh ...[more]