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People regularly use plants for a wide range of utilitarian, spiritual, pharmacological, and dietary purposes throughout the world. Scholarly understanding of the nature of these uses in prehistory is particularly limited by the poor preservation of plant resources in the archaeological record. In the last two decades, researchers in the South Pacific and in Central and South America have developed microscopic starch grain analysis, a technique for overcoming the limitations of poorly preserved

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Author

Timothy C. Messner

Publisher

Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817385316

Category

social science

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, Cultural & Social

Updated

2026-03-25