The ancient DNA revolution of the past 35 years has driven an explosion in the breadth,
nuance, and diversity of questions that are approachable using ancient biomolecules, and …

Interest in the study of foodways through an archaeological lens, particularly in the American
Southeast, is evident in the abundance of literature on this topic over the past decade …

The physicochemical and functional properties of huauzontle protein isolates (HPI) were
investigated. HPI had high contents of most essential amino acids excepting valine, and a …

Winner of the 2020 Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award An
authoritative and thoroughly accessible overview of farming and food practices at Cahokia …

Following the discovery in the late 1980s that hard tissues such as bones and teeth preserve
genetic information, the field of ancient DNA analysis has typically concentrated upon these …

Most of the cultivated chenopods are polyploids, but their origin and evolutionary history are
still poorly understood. Phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences of four plastid regions …

Societal Impact Statement Agrobiodiversity is central to sustainable farming worldwide.
Cultivation, conservation and reintroduction of diverse plant species, including 'forgotten'and …

The scope and ambition of biomolecular archaeology is undergoing rapid change due to the
development of new 'next generation'sequencing (NGS) methods for analysis of ancient …

The gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, contains five vegetable crops of worldwide importance, the
pumpkins and squash (Cucurbita spp.), watermelons (Citrullus lanatus), melons (Cucumis …

A variety of protocols for DNA extraction from archaeological and paleobotanical plant
specimens have been proposed. This is not surprising given the range of taxa and tissue …