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, > > 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 > > On 23 April 2013 06:37, Amanda Henry <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Nikolah Gilligan MSc. MIAI > > http://www.ipean.ie/profile_Nikolah.html > > 0879171105 > > > -- Nikolah Gilligan MSc. MIAI http://www.ipean.ie/profile_Nikolah.html 0879171105