RESIDUOS DE ALMIDONES Y EL USO DE PLANTAS DURANTE EL HOLOCENO MEDIO EN EL CAUCA MEDIO (COLOMBIA)

this paper presents starch grain data that suggest pant usage by human foragers that inhabited the san eugenio river basin (middle cauca) in the first half of the middle holocene. a large number of starch grains (325) were recovered from grinding tools (manos and bases) from the preceramic levels at la pochola archaeological site. the data suggest the exploitation of carbohydrate-rich plants, amongst which a variety of phaseolus (wild or domesticated) is found, placing the middle cauca region in to an important place to study the domestication and expansion of this gender. we then propose a forest management model based on the selective use of plants and the increase local plant diversity, that preceded the arrival and use of foreign domesticates.