Ancient Starch Research by Robin Torrence PAPERBACK 9780367605780

Taylor & Francis

This book furnishes a methodological and conceptual framework to researchers, scholars, students, and professors interested in starch and starch plant sources. We enjoyed reading it and strongly recommend it as a tool... -Concepcion Obon and Diego Rivera, Economic Botany\n\n\""For palynologists who work with archaeologists and even those working outside archaeology but in Holocene deposits, this book is essential.... Palynologists need to know the potentials of starch research, need to know how it can be recovered, need to know the types of information it might provide, and need to be alert about the potentials in order to recommend searching for 'both fossil pollen and starch grains' in ancient sediments.\"" -Vaughn M. Bryant, American Association of Stratigraphi Palynologists Newsletter\n\n\""This book is a collaborative effort brought together over several years by a group of scholars, primarily archaeologists and particularly based in Austalia. They wished to emphasize the importancy