Starch from ancient dental calculus

The following paper reports starch granules extracted from dental calculus. Very recently, these studies, reporting starch granules found from ancient dental calculus, increase steadily.

  • Wesolowski, V. N., Souza, S. M. F. M. D., Reinhard, K. J. & Ceccantini, G. R. 2010. Evaluating microfossil content of dental calculus from Brazilian sambaquis. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 1326–1338.

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