Mallory Melton was looking at some ancient potato starch residues from the Quilacampa archaeological site high in a coastal valley in Peru and thought they looked odd but familiar. Could they be from ...

Starchy residue preserved in ancient stone tools may rewrite the story of crop domestication in the American Southwest, ...

Ancient Indigenous peoples transported a wild potato across the Southwest, expanding its range thousands of years ago.

The town of Escalante in southern Utah is no small potatoes when it comes to scientific discovery; a new archaeological finding within its borders may rewrite the story of tuber domestication.

The party was over more than 4,000 years ago, but the remnants still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware. For the first time, researchers have studied the residues from gourds ...

Potato starch residues have been discovered in the crevices of a 10,900-year-old stone tool in Escalante, Utah -- the earliest evidence of wild potato use in North America. This is the first ...