Through generous support of a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (Award No. 2243095), and under the supervision of dissertation committee chairs Ken Sassaman and Kate Grillo, Ph.D. candidate Emily R. Bartz conducted controlled experiments to examine the organic residue absorption patterns resulting from indirect-heat cooking (i.e., stone-boiling) in Stallings replica vessels, a hallmark of Late Archaic foodways in the middle Savannah River Valley. While the results from organic residue analyses are pending, an update on how the experiment went and what has been discovered so far was presented by Emily in a poster at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference meeting in Chattanooga, TN, in October of 2023. Please click the thumbnail above to check out this poster and stay tuned for the results from the organic residue analysis!