This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

Neanderthals disappeared sometime between 30,000 and 24,000 years ago. Until recently,
Neanderthals were understood to have been predominantly meat-eaters; however, a …

This article reviews evidence of how starch granules associated with archaeological
artefacts provide an insight into the use of plants by our ancestors for food, medicines and …

Phytolith analysis has become an increasingly popular archaeobotanical tool in the past few
decades. Phytoliths have been used to support key hypotheses relating to the domestication …

Ancient starch analysis is an important methodology for researching ancient ecology, plant
use, diet, and tool function; particularly in the deep past when other proxies may not survive …

China is one of the few centers in the world where plant domestication evolved
independently, but its developmental trajectory is poorly understood. This is because there …

With phenotypic heterogeneity in whole cell populations widely recognised, the demand for
quantitative and temporal analysis approaches to characterise single cell morphology and …

The potential applications of microCT scanning in the field of archaeobotany are only just
beginning to be explored. The imaging technique can extract new archaeobotanical …

Dental calculus is now widely used to recover information on items ingested in the past. It is
particularly valuable in the earlier Paleolithic, where recovered data may represent the only …

Starch granules are being successfully recovered from an increasing range of artefacts.
Here we present the recovery of starches from carbonised ceramic 'foodcrusts' from late …