Abstract Background Coix (Coix lachryma-jobi L.), commonly known as adlay or Job's tears,
is a minor cereal and an important food item in some parts of Asia. It has also been used in …

It is generally understood that foxtail millet and broomcorn millet were initially domesticated
in Northern China where they eventually became the dominant plant food crops. The rarity of …

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 …

Cooking makes foods more palatable and digestible, less toxic and suitable for longer-term
storage. Starch granules usually undergo gelatinisation during cooking, resulting in the loss …

" This volume aims to satisfy a pressing need for an updated account of Chinese
archaeology. The volume's time frame extends from the earliest peopling of China to the …

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 …

Starch grains from 31 modern samples of millets derived from the seeds of 7 species within
the genus Setaria and 2 species within the genus Panicum were analyzed to determine …

Starch analysis has proven to be a powerful method applicable to recover microbotanical
remains of starchy foods in archaeological contexts, and morphometric analysis is the most …

Recent studies have shown that the proportion of rice bulliform phytoliths with≥ 9 fish-scale
decorations can be used as a criterion to differentiate wild rice from its domesticated …

Since the publication of Ancient Starch Research (Torrence and Barton, 2006), the number
and diversity of archaeological studies utilising analyses of ancient starch have increased to …