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Max Planck Research Group on Plant Foods in Hominin Dietary Ecology

Amanda G. Henry Bio CV Publications

Refereed Journals:

Lucas PW, Omar R, Al-Fadhalah K, Almusallam AS, Henry AG, Michael S, Thai LA, Watzke J, Strait DS, Atkins AG. (2013) Mechanisms and causes of wear in tooth enamel: implications for hominin diets. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 20120923. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2012.0923
Henry AG, Ungar PS, Passey BH, Sponheimer M, Rossouw L, Bamford M, deRuiter DJ, Berger L (2012). The diet of Australopithecus sediba. Nature. 487:90-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11185
Henry AG (2012). Plant microfossils as a source of dietary information. International Journal of Primatology. 33:702-715. DOI 10.1007/s10764-011-9556-1
Henry AG, Brooks AS and Piperno DR. (2011) Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar II, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108(2):486-491.
Henry AG, Hudson HF and Piperno DR. (2009) Changes in starch grain morphologies from cooking. Journal of Archaeological Science 36: 915-922.
Henry AG and Piperno DR. (2008) Using plant microfossils from dental calculus to recover human diet: A case study from Tell al-Raqa'i, Syria. Journal of Archaeological Science 35: 1943-1950.

Book Chapters:

Wood B and Henry AG. (2007) Whose diet? An introduction to hominin taxonomy. In P Ungar (Ed.): Evolution of the human diet: The known, the unknown and the unknowable. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Pp 11-28.

Executive Editor of, and Contributor to:

The Encyclopedia of Human Evolution (2011) Bernard Wood (Ed). Wiley-Blackwell.

In Press / Under Review:

Henry AG (in press). Identification of plant foods in the diets of Spy I and II based on analysis of plant microfossils trapped in dental calculus. in P. Semal, H. Rougier, C. Jungels and A. Hauzer (Eds.), Spy Cave: State of 120 Years of Pluridisciplinary Research on the Betche-aux-Rotches from Spy (Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Province of Namur, Belgium).
Henry AG (in review). Formation and taphonomic processes affecting starch grains. in J. D'Alpoim Guedes, J. M. Marston and C. Warinner (Eds.), Current Methods in Paleoethnobotany. University of Colorado Press.

Professional Meeting Posters, Papers and Presentations:

Power RC, Walker MJ, Salazar-García DC, Henry AG (2012). Evidence for Neanderthal plant food consumption at Sima de las Palomas, Southeastern Iberia. Hugo Obermeier Society meetings (Abstract and Presentation)
Power RC, Walker MJ, Salazar-García DC, Henry AG (2012). Neanderthal plant food consumption and environmental use at Sima de las Palomas, Southeastern Iberia. Paleoanthropology Society Meetings (Abstract and Presentation)
Salazar-Garcia DC, Coltrain JB, Richards M, Henry AG (2012). Stable isotopes from dental calculus. Society for American Archaeology Meetings (Abstract and Presentation)
Henry AG. (2011) Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals. American Association of Physical Anthropology Meetings (Abstract and Presentation).
Henry AG, Piperno DP, Brooks AS, and Rose T. (2010) Assessing dental calculus as a source of archaeological plant microfossils using ESEM/EDS. Society for American Archaeology Meetings (Abstract and Presentation).
Henry AG, Piperno DP and Brooks AS. (2009) South African plant microfossils and the role of USOs at Klasies River Mouth. Paleoanthropology Appendix (Abstract and Presentation).
Henry AG, Piperno D and Brooks AS. (2009) The record of plant foods in South Africa: USOs, Klasies River Mouth, and beyond. Darwin's Legacy: Early Human Evolution in Africa. New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology Conference. (Abstract and Presentation).
Henry AG, Piperno D. (2008) Plants in Neandertal diet: Plant microfossil evidence from the dental calculus of Shanidar III. Paleoanthropology Appendix: A9 (Abstract and Presentation).
Henry AG, Piperno D, Brooks AS. (2007) Reconstructing human diet from plant microfossils trapped in dental calculus: A preliminary study from Tell al-Raqa'i, Syria. Paleoanthropology Appendix: A12 (Abstract and Presentation).
Henry AG, Gordon KD, Trinkaus E, Brooks AS. (2006) Teeth as tools? A comparison of Neanderthal and Early Modern Human incisor microwear. Paleoanthropology Appendix: A 88 (Abstract and Presentation).

Other publications

Henry AG. (2011). Amateurs de viande. . . et de végétaux. La Recherche 45 (Oct 2011):52-55.