Amanda G Henry
Biographic Data
| ID | 76626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda G Henry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda G |
| FAMILY NAME | Henry |
| SIGNATURE | HENRY A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2923-4199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 765 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
International Protocol for the Study of Amorphous Charred Objects in Archaeology (Ipsaco 1.0)
Archaeobotanists around the world increasingly recognise that, alongside commonly studied materials such as seeds, fruits, wood charcoal, and chaff, archaeobotanical samples also contain fragments of carbonised organic (and sometimes inorganic) matter that vary in shape and often display an amorphous structure. These amorphous charred objects (ACO) are emerging as a novel proxy within the broader field of plant macroremain studies in Archaeology.…
Revealing Coix lacryma-jobi var. lacryma-jobi (Job’s tears) in Han Dynasty burials with evidence from phytolith identification
Coix lacryma-jobi L. (Job’s tears, adlay, yiyi 薏苡in Chinese) is a tropical member of the Poaceae family which is widely grown in southeast Asia for its grain, as medicine and for beads. However, archaeobotanical evidence of Coix from macrofossils or phytoliths remains limited, and the varieties used in ancient China have yet to be identified through research. In this study, the remains of involucral bracts of Coix from two Han Dynasty tombs (2004…
Reconstructing dietary practices at Tell Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon) during the Bronze and Iron Age III / Persian to Hellenistic periods using plant micro-remains from dental calculus and stable isotope an…
Tell Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon) was an important Bronze Age urban center that dominated one of the central crossroads of the Ancient Near East, connecting Egypt and the Levant with northern Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Syria, as well as the interior with the Mediterranean coast. However, by the early Iron Age, the site had shrunk to a small rural settlement. Later, in the Iron Age III / Persian-Hellenistic, only enigmatic pits and a large cemetery rema…
The Ice Age diet of the La Quina 5 Neandertal of southwest France
An initial key of starch grains from edible plants of the Eastern Mediterranean for use in identifying archaeological starches
Among archaeological micro-remains, starches can be used as a tool for reconstructing past environments, diets, and trade patterns through the identification of the plants collected and consumed by ancient populations. Starch grains preserved in dental calculus and on stone tools have been recovered from archaeological material from sites around the world. However, the ability to identify archaeological starch grains relies on having a broad (i.e…
Dietary evidence from Central Asian Neanderthals
Neanderthals are known primarily from their habitation of Western Eurasia, but they also populated large expanses of Northern Asia for thousands of years. Owing to a sparse archaeological record, relatively little is known about these eastern Neanderthal populations. Unlike in their western range, there are limited zooarchaeological and paleobotanical studies that inform us about the nature of their subsistence. Here, we perform a combined analys…
Starch grains from human teeth reveal the plant consumption of proto-Shang people (c. 2000-1600 BC) from Nancheng site, Hebei, China
Handbook for the Analysis of Micro-Particles in Archaeological Samples
From Bush Mangoes to Bouillon Cubes
Increasing deforestation affects tropical forests, threatening the livelihoods of local populations who subsist on forest resources. The disappearance of wild plants and animals and the increasing influence of market economies affect local health, well-being, and diet. The impact of these changes on wild meat consumption has been well documented, but little attention has been given to wild edible plants, despite their importance as sources of cal…
Comparing Apples and Pears
Comparing Apples and Pears: The Hidden Diversity of Central African Bush Mangoes (Irvingiaceae) . The fruits of Irvingiaceae trees, commonly known as “bush mangoes” or “mangues sauvages,” are crucial foods for Central African human populations, as well as local wildlife. Irvingiaceae oil-rich kernels play an important role in local diet, well-being, and livelihood. When collected for sale, they enter the international market of non-timber forest …
Seasonal and habitat effects on the nutritional properties of savanna vegetation
Towards an understanding of the costs of fire
The ability to produce fire at will and to maintain it for a long duration is considered one of the major advances in human evolution. The exact process by which hominins first learned to use and to create fire is still hotly debated, with some arguing for a sudden transformative event that was quickly followed by a biological and cultural dependence on fire, such as a reliance on the extra calories saved through cooking food and an external sour…
Grass leaves as potential hominin dietary resources
Dental calculus indicates widespread plant use within the stable Neanderthal dietary niche
European Society for the Study of Human Evolution 2017
Tooth wear
Archaeological implications of the digestion of starches by soil bacteria
Neanderthal Cooking and the Costs of Fire
While it is clear that Neanderthals used fire for cooking their foods in some times and places, the record of their use of fire is somewhat patchy. We should not assume that Neanderthals had the same relationship with fire that we do; as a technological/cultural behavior, fire may be better understood as a tool that was used only when the costs of manufacture and maintenance were outweighed by the benefits
Impact of Brief Roasting on Starch Gelatinization in Whole Foods and Implications for Plant Food Nutritional Ecology in Human Evolution
Cooking is an important technology for its capacity to increase food digestibility, particularly for plant foods, potentially playing a significant role in human evolution to increase nutritional acquisition. However, the contextual impetus for cooking is less well understood. One mode of cooking used by modern humans is to roast food directly in an open flame fire for very brief durations. This technique may be a behavioral analogue to that of e…
Methods to isolate and quantify damaged and gelatinized starch grains
Plant microremains in dental calculus as a record of plant consumption
Microremains from El Mirón Cave human dental calculus suggest a mixed plant–animal subsistence economy during the Magdalenian in Northern Iberia
Assessing digestibility of Hadza tubers using a dynamic in‐vitro model
OBJECTIVES: Bioaccessibility is a useful measure for assessing the biological value of a particular nutrient from food, especially foods such as tubers. The wild tubers exploited by Hadza foragers in Tanzania are of interest because they are nontoxic, consumed raw or briefly roasted, and entail substantial physical barriers to consumers. In this study, we attempted to elucidate the biological value of Hadza tubers by measuring the absorption of g…
To meat or not to meat? New perspectives on N eanderthal ecology
Neanderthals have been commonly depicted as top predators who met their nutritional needs by focusing entirely on meat. This information mostly derives from faunal assemblage analyses and stable isotope studies: methods that tend to underestimate plant consumption and overestimate the intake of animal proteins. Several studies in fact demonstrate that there is a physiological limit to the amount of animal proteins that can be consumed: exceeding …
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Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans
Changes in starch grain morphologies from cooking
Neanderthal diets in central and southeastern Mediterranean Iberia
Using plant microfossils from dental calculus to recover human diet
To meat or not to meat? New perspectives on N eanderthal ecology
Neanderthals have been commonly depicted as top predators who met their nutritional needs by focusing entirely on meat. This information mostly derives from faunal assemblage analyses and stable isotope studies: methods that tend to underestimate plant consumption and overestimate the intake of animal proteins. Several studies in fact demonstrate that there is a physiological limit to the amount of animal proteins that can be consumed: exceeding …
Dental calculus indicates widespread plant use within the stable Neanderthal dietary niche
Neanderthal Cooking and the Costs of Fire
While it is clear that Neanderthals used fire for cooking their foods in some times and places, the record of their use of fire is somewhat patchy. We should not assume that Neanderthals had the same relationship with fire that we do; as a technological/cultural behavior, fire may be better understood as a tool that was used only when the costs of manufacture and maintenance were outweighed by the benefits
Dental calculus is not equivalent to bone collagen for isotope analysis
Microremains from El Mirón Cave human dental calculus suggest a mixed plant–animal subsistence economy during the Magdalenian in Northern Iberia
Assessing use and suitability of scanning electron microscopy in the analysis of micro remains in dental calculus
Dietary evidence from Central Asian Neanderthals
Neanderthals are known primarily from their habitation of Western Eurasia, but they also populated large expanses of Northern Asia for thousands of years. Owing to a sparse archaeological record, relatively little is known about these eastern Neanderthal populations. Unlike in their western range, there are limited zooarchaeological and paleobotanical studies that inform us about the nature of their subsistence. Here, we perform a combined analys…
Plant microremains in dental calculus as a record of plant consumption
Assessing digestibility of Hadza tubers using a dynamic in‐vitro model
OBJECTIVES: Bioaccessibility is a useful measure for assessing the biological value of a particular nutrient from food, especially foods such as tubers. The wild tubers exploited by Hadza foragers in Tanzania are of interest because they are nontoxic, consumed raw or briefly roasted, and entail substantial physical barriers to consumers. In this study, we attempted to elucidate the biological value of Hadza tubers by measuring the absorption of g…
Towards an understanding of the costs of fire
The ability to produce fire at will and to maintain it for a long duration is considered one of the major advances in human evolution. The exact process by which hominins first learned to use and to create fire is still hotly debated, with some arguing for a sudden transformative event that was quickly followed by a biological and cultural dependence on fire, such as a reliance on the extra calories saved through cooking food and an external sour…
Archaeological implications of the digestion of starches by soil bacteria
Seasonal and habitat effects on the nutritional properties of savanna vegetation
From Bush Mangoes to Bouillon Cubes
Increasing deforestation affects tropical forests, threatening the livelihoods of local populations who subsist on forest resources. The disappearance of wild plants and animals and the increasing influence of market economies affect local health, well-being, and diet. The impact of these changes on wild meat consumption has been well documented, but little attention has been given to wild edible plants, despite their importance as sources of cal…
An initial key of starch grains from edible plants of the Eastern Mediterranean for use in identifying archaeological starches
Among archaeological micro-remains, starches can be used as a tool for reconstructing past environments, diets, and trade patterns through the identification of the plants collected and consumed by ancient populations. Starch grains preserved in dental calculus and on stone tools have been recovered from archaeological material from sites around the world. However, the ability to identify archaeological starch grains relies on having a broad (i.e…
Comparing Apples and Pears
Comparing Apples and Pears: The Hidden Diversity of Central African Bush Mangoes (Irvingiaceae) . The fruits of Irvingiaceae trees, commonly known as “bush mangoes” or “mangues sauvages,” are crucial foods for Central African human populations, as well as local wildlife. Irvingiaceae oil-rich kernels play an important role in local diet, well-being, and livelihood. When collected for sale, they enter the international market of non-timber forest …
Grass leaves as potential hominin dietary resources
Recovering Dietary Information from Extant and Extinct Primates Using Plant Microremains
When reconstructing the diets of primates, researchers often rely on several well established methods, such as direct observation, studies of discarded plant parts, and analysis of macrobotanical remains in fecal matter. Most of these studies can be performed only on living primate groups, however, and the diets of extinct, subfossil, and fossil groups are known only from proxy methods. Plant microremains, tiny plant structures with distinctive m…
Methods to isolate and quantify damaged and gelatinized starch grains
Starch grains from human teeth reveal the plant consumption of proto-Shang people (c. 2000-1600 BC) from Nancheng site, Hebei, China
Reconstructing dietary practices at Tell Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon) during the Bronze and Iron Age III / Persian to Hellenistic periods using plant micro-remains from dental calculus and stable isotope an…
Tell Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon) was an important Bronze Age urban center that dominated one of the central crossroads of the Ancient Near East, connecting Egypt and the Levant with northern Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Syria, as well as the interior with the Mediterranean coast. However, by the early Iron Age, the site had shrunk to a small rural settlement. Later, in the Iron Age III / Persian-Hellenistic, only enigmatic pits and a large cemetery rema…
Using plant microfossils from dental calculus to recover human diet
Changes in starch grain morphologies from cooking
The diet of Australopithecus sediba
Recovering Dietary Information from Extant and Extinct Primates Using Plant Microremains
When reconstructing the diets of primates, researchers often rely on several well established methods, such as direct observation, studies of discarded plant parts, and analysis of macrobotanical remains in fecal matter. Most of these studies can be performed only on living primate groups, however, and the diets of extinct, subfossil, and fossil groups are known only from proxy methods. Plant microremains, tiny plant structures with distinctive m…
Mechanisms and causes of wear in tooth enamel
The wear of teeth is a major factor limiting mammalian lifespans in the wild. One method of describing worn surfaces, dental microwear texture analysis, has proved powerful for reconstructing the diets of extinct vertebrates, but has yielded unexpected results in early hominins. In particular, although australopiths exhibit derived craniodental features interpreted as adaptations for eating hard foods, most do not exhibit microwear signals indica…
Neanderthal diets in central and southeastern Mediterranean Iberia
Dental calculus is not equivalent to bone collagen for isotope analysis
Assessing use and suitability of scanning electron microscopy in the analysis of micro remains in dental calculus
Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans
Plant microremains in dental calculus as a record of plant consumption
Microremains from El Mirón Cave human dental calculus suggest a mixed plant–animal subsistence economy during the Magdalenian in Northern Iberia
Assessing digestibility of Hadza tubers using a dynamic in‐vitro model
OBJECTIVES: Bioaccessibility is a useful measure for assessing the biological value of a particular nutrient from food, especially foods such as tubers. The wild tubers exploited by Hadza foragers in Tanzania are of interest because they are nontoxic, consumed raw or briefly roasted, and entail substantial physical barriers to consumers. In this study, we attempted to elucidate the biological value of Hadza tubers by measuring the absorption of g…
To meat or not to meat? New perspectives on N eanderthal ecology
Neanderthals have been commonly depicted as top predators who met their nutritional needs by focusing entirely on meat. This information mostly derives from faunal assemblage analyses and stable isotope studies: methods that tend to underestimate plant consumption and overestimate the intake of animal proteins. Several studies in fact demonstrate that there is a physiological limit to the amount of animal proteins that can be consumed: exceeding …
Título não encontrado
Impact of Brief Roasting on Starch Gelatinization in Whole Foods and Implications for Plant Food Nutritional Ecology in Human Evolution
Cooking is an important technology for its capacity to increase food digestibility, particularly for plant foods, potentially playing a significant role in human evolution to increase nutritional acquisition. However, the contextual impetus for cooking is less well understood. One mode of cooking used by modern humans is to roast food directly in an open flame fire for very brief durations. This technique may be a behavioral analogue to that of e…
Methods to isolate and quantify damaged and gelatinized starch grains
Tooth wear
Archaeological implications of the digestion of starches by soil bacteria
Neanderthal Cooking and the Costs of Fire
While it is clear that Neanderthals used fire for cooking their foods in some times and places, the record of their use of fire is somewhat patchy. We should not assume that Neanderthals had the same relationship with fire that we do; as a technological/cultural behavior, fire may be better understood as a tool that was used only when the costs of manufacture and maintenance were outweighed by the benefits
Towards an understanding of the costs of fire
The ability to produce fire at will and to maintain it for a long duration is considered one of the major advances in human evolution. The exact process by which hominins first learned to use and to create fire is still hotly debated, with some arguing for a sudden transformative event that was quickly followed by a biological and cultural dependence on fire, such as a reliance on the extra calories saved through cooking food and an external sour…
Grass leaves as potential hominin dietary resources
Dental calculus indicates widespread plant use within the stable Neanderthal dietary niche
European Society for the Study of Human Evolution 2017
Seasonal and habitat effects on the nutritional properties of savanna vegetation
Handbook for the Analysis of Micro-Particles in Archaeological Samples
Biology (23 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (22 works) · Ecology (17 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (16 works) · Archaeology (15 works) · Geography (15 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Isotope Analysis in Ecology (8 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works)