The prehistory of wild potato use, leading to its domestication and diversification, has been
well-documented in, and confined to, South America. At least 20 tuber-bearing, wild species …

No agreement on what constitutes a safe and reproducible anticontamination protocol exists
for ancient starch research. Protocols applied to laboratory work may represent 'symptomatic …

The assumption that taxonomy can be ascertained by starch granule shape and size has
persisted since the late nineteenth and early twentieth century biochemistry. More recent …

The functional study of ground stone artefacts and the analysis of charred plant remains
together demonstrate that plant foods played a significant role in the diets of Aboriginal …

A collection of starch granules synthesized in 40 food plants was assembled. After extraction
and purification, samples were subjected to optic and scanning electron microscopy …

Presented are revised procedures for recovering pollen and spores, phytoliths, and starch
and other plant material from archaeological and other palaeoenvironmental deposits for …

Starch-rich plants have played an important role in human evolution and societal
development. Collected, grown, and consumed to support ever-increasing populations, such …

Biocultural heritage preservation relies on ethnobotanical knowledge and the
paleoethnobotanical data used in (re) constructing histories of human–biota interactions …

Starch granule analysis is commonly used to describe the incorporation of plants into past
human diets. However, assigning starch granules to particular plant taxa can be …

Multiproxy data from coprolites at the Connley Caves in central Oregon provide new
evidence for diet, seasonal subsistence strategies, and human health during the middle and …