Organic Residue Analysis and Tea Culture
Questions about tea culture raised during language fieldwork introduce students to the analysis of organic residues in vessels and the use of science in historical and cultural research.
Project focusScience & cultural inquiry
Project progressLaboratory learning focused on organic residues and sample testing.
Project activities
Students explored how tea culture could be studied through residues left in utensils. With specialist guidance, they tried GC-MS analysis, prepared filtering equipment for lipid separation and examined sample spectra, connecting laboratory methods with questions arising from Bulang language fieldwork.