Beer was here! A new microstructural marker for malting in the archaeological record (IMAGE)
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The bowl-shaped charred cereal product ("brei mit napfförmiger oberfläche") from Hornstaad--Hörnle IA. Find no. Ho 45/43-28. Top: light micrograph (red square: location of SEM subsample), bottom: SEM images. Left: patch of regularly arranged aleurone cells (A) with a conspicuous intercellular space (*) in between. L... longitudinal cells, right: fracture through the outer caryopsis layers, the multiple aleurone layers (A1 -A3) identify the material as cultivated barley (Hordeum vulgare) as do the thin-walled transverse cells (T). SE... starchy endosperm (fused remains), N? ... probably nucellus tissue, L?... probably longitudinal cells, E... epidermis (abraded).. Images: ÖAW-ÖAI / N. Gail (light micrograph), A. G. Heiss (SEM)
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Heiss et al, 2020 (PLOS ONE, CC BY)
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