Open sesame: Identification of sesame oil and oil soot ink in organic deposits of Tang Dynasty lamps from Astana necropolis in China

• Anna Shevchenko ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Shevchenko, Yimin Yang

  Affiliation MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

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• Yimin Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Shevchenko, Yimin Yang

  Affiliations Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China, Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China

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• Andrea Knaust,

  Affiliation MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

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• Jean-Marc Verbavatz,

  Current address: Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS/Université Paris Diderot Sorbonne Paris Cite, Paris, France

  Affiliation MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

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• Huijuan Mai,

  Affiliations Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China, Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China

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• Bo Wang,

  Affiliation Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum, Ürümchi, PR China

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• Changsui Wang ,

  * E-mail: shevchenko@mpi-cbg.de (AS); cswang@ucas.ac.cn (CW)

  Affiliations Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China, Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China

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• Andrej Shevchenko

  * E-mail: shevchenko@mpi-cbg.de (AS); cswang@ucas.ac.cn (CW)

  Affiliation MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

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