Starch in Cuba

Author(s): Sheahan Bestel

Year: 2015

Summary

Evidence of subsistence and diet in the Carribean is examined using evidence from starch grains extracted from human dental calculus. This is compared with isotope data to examine distinct populations of humans in Cuba.

SAA 2015 abstracts made available in tDAR courtesy of the Society for American Archaeology and Center for Digital Antiquity Collaborative Program to improve digital data in archaeology. If you are the author of this presentation you may upload your paper, poster, presentation, or associated data (up to 3 files/30MB) for free. Please visit http://www.tdar.org/SAA2015 for instructions and more information.

Cite this Record

Starch in Cuba. Sheahan Bestel. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 396625)

Keywords

General
Cuba Starch

Geographic Keywords
Caribbean

Spatial Coverage

min long: -90.747; min lat: 3.25 ; max long: -48.999; max lat: 27.683 ;