The recognition of subsistence strategies, diet and culinary practices is one of the
most important questions in the study of the development of Late Neolithic communities in the Middle
Morava Valley. Pots serving as containers involved in many everyday activities related to preparing or the
processing of food are an optimal and suitable source of information in this regard. However, the determination
of vessel functions is usually a very problematic task, due to the preservation of the material, their
fragmentation, scarcity of use-wear traces and heterogeneity of pot shape. Moreover, most of the Late
Vin~a pots seem to have fulfilled more than just one established purpose. Thus, the aim of this paper is to
present the results of organic residue analysis (GC, GC-MS and GC-C-IRMS) to examine the use of pottery
involved in the preparation, storage and consumption of different types of foodstuffs by the Late Vin~a
communities. Pottery from two Late Neolithic sites of Drenovac and Motel Slatina in the Middle Morava
Valley, Central Serbia were chosen for the organic residue analysis. Vessels are shown to have been used to
process a range of commodities including beeswax, ruminant dairy fats, ruminant adipose fats and nonruminant
adipose fats. A predominance of the processing of dairy products was observed at both sites, in
vessels of varying sizes and types.The Neolithic in the middle Morava valley, ISSN 1820-4724 ; no.
