Starch residues on museum artefacts: implications for determining tool use

By Huw Barton. 2007

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Using plant microfossils from dental calculus to recover human diet: a case study from Tell al-Raqā'i, Syria (2008, background): “It is intriguing that so many cooked starches survived, since heat caused starch to gelatinize and there is evidence that cooking makes starches more susceptible to organic decay (Samuel, 2006), though others have shown that grains damaged from heat and other factors can survive for a long time on a”
Changes in starch grain morphologies from cooking (2009, unknown): “, 2004), stone tools dating from the Pleistocene through the Holocene periods (Barton, 2007; Fullagar et al., 2006; Pearsall et al., 2004; Piperno and Holst, 1998; Zarrillo et al., 2008) pottery (Crowther, 2005), and dental calculus (Boyadjian et al.”