Identification of starch granules using a two-step identification method

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 421-427

  Liu, Li ^a   Ma, Sai ^b   Cui, Jianxin ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MINZU UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ancient starch; China; Discriminant analysis; Job's tears; Millets; Starch morphometrics

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MILLET; MORPHOMETRY; STARCH;

EID: 84907752304     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.09.008     Document Type: Article

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