{"id":4510,"date":"2022-05-21T12:21:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T16:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2022-05-21T12:21:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T16:21:35","slug":"marston-publishes-first-archaeological-evidence-for-maize-nixtamalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/2022\/05\/21\/marston-publishes-first-archaeological-evidence-for-maize-nixtamalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Marston publishes first archaeological evidence for maize nixtamalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jas.2022.105581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new article<\/a> in the <em>Journal of Archaeological Science<\/em>, co-authored by Marston, provides the first direct archaeological evidence for maize nixtamalization. Samples from two chultunes, rock-carved pits, from the Classic Maya site of San Bartolo, Guatemala, yielded abundant quantities of starch spherulites, which Marston and EAL alumna <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/profile\/emily-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emily Johnson<\/a> (CAS &#8217;17) previously identified as a product of nixtamalization. Even more exciting, Marston and co-authors found parasite eggs in the same deposits, indicating these chultunes were used as latrines, leading to the conclusion that nejayote, the caustic liquid that is a by-product of nixtamalization, may have been used to &#8220;flush&#8221; these toilets. Read more about it <a href=\"https:\/\/authors.elsevier.com\/c\/1f4sL15SlTv9OB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> (free until July 5)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new article in the Journal of Archaeological Science, co-authored by Marston, provides the first direct archaeological evidence for maize nixtamalization. Samples from two chultunes, rock-carved pits, from the Classic Maya site of San Bartolo, Guatemala, yielded abundant quantities of starch spherulites, which Marston and EAL alumna Emily Johnson (CAS &#8217;17) previously identified as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,9,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4511,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions\/4511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}