Microscopic analysis of starch grains and its applications in the archaeology of the Stone Age

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F18%3A43897900" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/18:43897900 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.iansa.eu/papers/IANSA-2018-01-kovarnik.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.iansa.eu/papers/IANSA-2018-01-kovarnik.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Microscopic analysis of starch grains and its applications in the archaeology of the Stone Age

Original language description

Archaeobotanical micro-residuals are today a major focus in artefactual and bioarchaeological investigations. Though starch grains analysis may be regarded as marginal, it can be a useful analysis for archaeological research, being a method suitable for the investigation of stone artefacts and ceramic vessels. Soil samples and dental calculus can also be examined. Through the use of various extraction methods it is possible to answer questions of diet composition and purpose of stone tool use. As documented in recent studies examining the composition of the human diet, starch grain research should be one of the main areas of archaeobotanical investigation. Its applicability can be seen in studies where it is useful to define the role of plants in human subsistence. New evidence of plant use in archaeological contexts in the Stone Age, beginning in the Palaeolithic and ending in the Neolithic, has been presented in recent papers. Current archaeological studies, including those using starch grain analyses, have particularly indicated the higher ratio of plants in the diet during the Palaeolithic period.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0289" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0289: PAPAVER - The Centre for the Study of European and North African Man and Plants in Post-glacial period</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica

ISSN

1804-848X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

IX

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1/2018

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

83-93

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85058067233