New insights into the consumption of maize and other food plants in the pre-Columbian Caribbean from starch grains trapped in human dental calculus

Two Categories of ¹³C/¹²C Ratios for Higher Plants

Bruce N. Smith, Samuel Epstein · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY · 1971 · 2K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Botany, Plant Biology +10

Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico

Dolores R. Piperno, Anthony J. Ranere, Irene Holst et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 723 citations · Full text

Humanities, Archaeology, Plant Sciences +17

The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals.

Robert M. Adams, Peter J. Ucko, G. W. Dimbleby · The Economic History Review · 1970 · 719 citations

Agriculture, Animal Sciences, Plant Sciences +14

Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium)

Amanda G. Henry, Alison S. Brooks, Dolores R. Piperno · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 507 citations · Full text

Humanities, Archaeology, Botany +17

Processing of wild cereal grains in the Upper Palaeolithic revealed by starch grain analysis

Dolores R. Piperno, Ehud Weiss, Irene Holst et al. · Nature · 2004 · 503 citations

Humanities, Archaeology, Plant Sciences +16