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Starch Spherulites: What We Know and What Is Next for This Promising New Method of Paleoethnobotanical Analysis (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Starch spherulites are a promising new paleoethnobotanical discovery. Well-studied in food sciences, starch spherulites form when amylose from plant starch recrystallizes in spherulitic morphology. This requires processing by humans (mainly through heat, although pH impacts this dynamic) in an aqueous environment. The...