Addressing Redundancy and Multiplicity in Starch Assemblages: A Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Native Plants from the Batuco Wetland (Central Chile)https://doi.org/10.34691/UCHILE/Y3TIMNRamírez Funes, HoracioRepositorio de datos de investigación de la Universidad de Chile2025-03-182025-08-18T16:41:41ZIn 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.Social Sciences2025-03-18Ramírez Funes, Horacio2025-03-18CC-BY 4.0