Below are two open access papers that use stable isotopes as paleo-cooking thermometers.

Staudigel, P.T., Swart, P.K., Pourmand, A., Laguer-Díaz, C.A. and Pestle, W.J., 2019. Boiled or
roasted? Bivalve cooking methods of early Puerto Ricans elucidated using clumped isotopes. Science
advances, 5(11), p.eaaw5447.
[www.science.org]

Müller, P., Staudigel, P.T., Murray, S.T., Vernet, R., Barusseau, J.P., Westphal, H. and Swart,
P.K., 2017. Prehistoric cooking versus accurate palaeotemperature records in shell midden
constituents. Scientific reports, 7(1), pp.1-11.
[www.nature.com]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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