Starch Grains and Early Agriculture

Material Starch Grains Instrumentation SEM Application Identification Place Ecuador Time Period Archaic, 9000 BP [Pg.131]

Question Can starch grains be used to identify domesticated plants in tropical America What plants were people eating in the tropics [Pg.131]

Dickau, Ruth, Anthony J. Ranere, and Richard G. Cooke. 2007. Starch grain evidence for the preceramic dispersals of maize and root crops into tropical dry and humid forests of Panama. Proceedings ofthe National Academy of Science 104 3651-3656. [Pg.131]

Jorge Enrique Moreno P., and Dolores R. Pipemo. 2007. Identification of teosinte, maize, and Tripsacum in Mesoamerica by using pollen, starch grains, and phytoliths. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 17608-17613. [Pg.131]

Daniel H. Sandweiss, Dolores R Pipemo, Kurt Rademaker, Michael A. Malpass, Adan Umire, and Pablo de la Vera,. 2006. Early maize agriculture and interzonal interaction in southern Peru. Nature 440 76-79. [Pg.131]

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