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Sorry - that was meant to be a private message to Amanda!

On 23 April 2013 13:58, nikolah gilligan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Amanda,
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> I have a FB site where people post about archaeological diets and
> archaeobotany and anything in between really! I think there was a guy on it
> lately who posted about starches. Want me to ask him?
>
> Nikolah
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>  On 23 April 2013 06:37, Amanda Henry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>  Hello,
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone on the listserv has used sodium polytungstate to
>> try to separate partially gelatinized starches from sediment samples. We've
>> been doing some experiments with modern materials and have found that SPT
>> at 1.8g/ml seems to preferentially float native starches, leaving the
>> partially gelatinized ones in the pellet. Has anyone else run into this
>> problem? Any suggestions for a better method?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>> Amanda
>>
>>
>>  Amanda Henry, PhD
>> Independent Research Group Leader
>> Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
>> Leipzig, Germany
>> http://www.eva.mpg.de/plants
>>
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