Lipids, pots and food processing at Hočevarica, Ljubljansko barje, Slovenia

The paper presents the results of lipid analyses of pottery samples from Ho≠evarica (Ljub- ljansko barje, Slovenia). Total lipid extracts were subjected to high temperature gas chromatography (HT-GC), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and gas chromatography-combustion-isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC-C-IRMS). The results show that some vessels were used for prepar- ing ruminant meat and vegetable, but also the remains of aquatic food were identified. The processing of non-ruminant meat was detected in a few samples. A high number of pottery samples yielded the presence of beeswax lipids. The charred residual on pottery was AMS 14C dated.V članku predstavljamo rezultate analiz lipidov ohranjenih v keramičnem zbiru s Hočevarice. Lipide, ekstrahirane iz ostankov keramičnih posod, smo analizirali s pomočjo plinske kromatografije pri visokih temperaturah (HT-GC), plinske kromatografije sklopljene z masno spektrometrijo (GC-MS) in plinske kromatografije sklopljene z masnim pektrometrom za analizo stabilnih izotopov lahkih elementov preko sežigne enote (GC-C-IRMS). Rezultati kažejo, da so v posodah pripravljali hrano iz mesa prežvekovalcev in zelenjave; redko iz mesa neprežvekovalcev. V drugih so pripravljali hrano iz sladkovodnih rib. V številnih posodah je bil odkrit čebelji vosek. Karbonizirani ostanki na posodah so bili AMS 14C datirani