Addressing Redundancy and Multiplicity in Starch Assemblages: A Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Native Plants from the Batuco Wetland (Central Chile)

10.34691/UCHILE/Y3TIMN Ramírez Funes, Horacio0009-0009-2952-9278(Ind) Addressing Redundancy and Multiplicity in Starch Assemblages: A Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Native Plants from the Batuco Wetland (Central Chile) Repositorio de datos de investigación de la Universidad de Chile 2025 doi:10.34691/UCHILE/Y3TIMN/KCBLEAdoi:10.34691/UCHILE/Y3TIMN/DVPRZHdoi:10.34691/UCHILE/Y3TIMN/19WGV7doi:10.34691/UCHILE/Y3TIMN/9VA5CWdoi:10.34691/UCHILE/Y3TIMN/WYJVRZdoi:10.34691/UCHILE/Y3TIMN/6SGCPIdoi:10.34691/UCHILE/Y3TIMN/FZGPENdoi:10.34691/UCHILE/Y3TIMN/HUYYFAdoi:10.34691/UCHILE/Y3TIMN/UO3R3Bdoi:10.34691/UCHILE/Y3TIMN/8LPOCM In paleoethnobotanical studies, reference collections of bio-particles play a crucial role in the taxonomic identification of plants, and starch grains are among the most widely used. Specifically, the issues of redundancy, multiplicity, and inter-individual variation in starch production have led us to propose a statistical method to identify specific morphotypes and inter-species morphological redundancies for six native wild plants of the Batuco lagoon-wetlands. The reference collection was applied to a residue analysis of ceramic sherds from the BAT01 site in the same area, successfully identifying four of the six species. Ramírez Funes, Horacio(Ind)