Starch granules (IMAGE)

Aarhus University

Starch granules

Caption

Microscopies of four types of archaeological starch granules from different grinding stones from Frydenlund, magnified 400 times (the white bars represent 20 μm), each photographed in both plane-polarized (left) and cross-polarized light. The starch type shown in image a resembles starch from a grass subfamily of the Panicoideae type; the others are unidentified. Click to view the image in a larger format.

Credit

Cristina N. Patús, HUMANE, Barcelona.

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