Gourd and squash artifacts yield starch grains of feasting foods from preceramic Peru

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 13202-13206

  Duncan, Neil A ^a   Pearsall, Deborah M ^a   Benfer Jr , Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STARCH;

ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CASSAVA; COLOCYNTH; GRAIN; MARANTACEAE; PEPPER; PERU; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPIS; SOLANUM; SQUASH;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CERAMICS; CUCURBITA; CUCURBITACEAE; DIET; FOOD; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; PERU; SEEDS; STARCH;

CAPSICUM; CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS; CUCURBITA; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; MARANTA ARUNDINACEA; PROSOPIS; SOLANUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 69449104541     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903322106     Document Type: Article

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