The Late Neolithic palafitte site, Ustie na Drim, in the northern part of Lake Ohrid (North Macedonia), excavated in 1962, offered ceramic fragments of large, flat, elongated pans. These artifacts could be dated by relative chronology to roughly around 5200-5000 BC. According to their shape and technological traits, the ceramic pans were probably used for baking. The attached materials on the surface of studied pan fragments were sampled for consequent chemical and microscopical analyses (i.e., analyses of starch, phytoliths, and microscopic animal remains). An immunological method revealed the presence of pork proteins in samples. The presence of organic residues of animal origin was, moreover, confirmed by the detection of cholesterol using gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. Analysis of detected microscopic botanical objects revealed starch grains of several plants (i.e., oak, cattail, and grasses). An interesting find was the hair of a beetle larva, which could be interpreted contextually as the khapra beetle, a pest of grain and flour. Based on our data, we suppose that the ceramic pans from Ustie na Drim were used for the preparation of meals containing meat from common livestock in combination with cereals and wild plants.

Central European Institute of Technology Brno University of Technology Technická 123 612 00 Brno Czech Republic

Centre of Biology Geosciences and Environmental Education University of West Bohemia Univerzitni 8 30614 Plzen Czech Republic

Department of Analytical Chemistry Faculty of Science Palacký University 17 Listopadu 12 779 00 Olomouc Czech Republic

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Mendel University in Brno Zemědělská 1 613 00 Brno Czech Republic

Institute of Archaeology Faculty of Philosophy University of South Bohemia Branišovská 31 370 05 České Budějovice Czech Republic

Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences 118 01 Prague Czech Republic

Kej 8 Noemvri br 24 6 6330 Struga North Macedonia

Laboratory of Archaeobotany and Palaeoecology Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia Na Zlaté stoce 3 370 05 České Budějovice Czech Republic

Laboratory of Palynology and Paleobotany Department of Life Sciences University of Modena and Reggio Emilia via G Campi 287 41125 Modena Italy

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