Residue analysis has become a frequently applied method for identifying prehistoric stone
tool use. Residues adhering to the stone tool with varying frequencies are interpreted as …

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 …

Recent advances in the role played by dietary carbohydrates in human food webs during the
Palaeolithic highlight that starchy foods were part of the diet well before crop domestication …

Maize beer, or chicha de maiz, has held an important political, social, and ritual role within
Andean society for thousands of years. However, definitive identification of maize beer …

Taxonomic identification of starch granules is critical to understanding dietary patterns from
archaeological contexts, but achieving high levels of confidence around such identifications …

A selection of five ground stones from Pontic Steppe sites dating back to the Early Upper
Palaeolithic (EUP) was used as test-cases to be analysed by combining wear-traces and …

Complementary archaeological and paleoenvironmental datasets from North Creek Shelter
(Colorado Plateau, Utah, USA) are analyzed using the diet breadth model, revealing human …

Identifying the relationships between prehistoric technologies and their role in food
processing is important in understanding the timing, constraints, and motivations for dietary …

In China, grinding stones (mainly slabs and elongate handstones) first appeared during the
Upper Paleolithic period, and were one of the dominant tool types in many early Neolithic …

Starch granules can be recovered from a variety of archaeological contexts and have been
used to interpret plant utilization, cooking technologies, and activity areas. This experiment …