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Fuel for thought? Beeswax in lamps and conical cups from Late Minoan Crete
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What was burned in lamps in the prehistoric Mediterranean? Olive oil, as one would first suppose? Analysis of absorbed lipids preserved in the fabric of lamps and conical cups from the Minoan site of Mochlos in eastern Crete shows for the first time that beeswax was used as an illuminant.
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- Evershed, R. P., Vaughan, S. J., Dudd, S. N., & Soles, J. S.
- Venue
- Antiquity
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1997-12
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 274
- Pages
- 979-985
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- 0003-598X (ISSN-L)
- 1745-1744
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- W1841546294
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- 46.51
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- en
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