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Marcus investigates the transition from wild foraging to early domestication through the lens of seed coat morphology. He enjoys exploring how taphonomic processes can bias our understanding of ancient dietary choices.

20 Articles
Articles by Marcus Chen
Reading the Tiny Signs: A Weekly Look at Our Past Botanical Macro-remains and Phytoliths All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

Reading the Tiny Signs: A Weekly Look at Our Past

Marcus Chen - Jul 6, 2026
The Invisible Glass Skeletons in Our Dirt High-Resolution Analytical Techniques All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

The Invisible Glass Skeletons in Our Dirt

Marcus Chen - Jun 29, 2026
What Burnt Seeds Can Tell Us About the First Farmers Ancient Agricultural Practices All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

What Burnt Seeds Can Tell Us About the First Farmers

Marcus Chen - Jun 27, 2026
What Burnt Seeds Can Tell Us About Our Great-Grandparents Taphonomy and Preservation Science All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

What Burnt Seeds Can Tell Us About Our Great-Grandparents

Marcus Chen - Jun 26, 2026
Tiny Clues and Big Histories: This Week's Finds Ancient Agricultural Practices All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

Tiny Clues and Big Histories: This Week's Finds

Marcus Chen - Jun 22, 2026
High-Resolution Analytical Techniques

Ancient Snacks and the Birth of Farming

Marcus Chen - Jun 18, 2026
The Trash We Treasure: Finding the Birth of Farming in Burnt Seeds Botanical Macro-remains and Phytoliths All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

The Trash We Treasure: Finding the Birth of Farming in Burnt Seeds

Marcus Chen - Jun 17, 2026
Little Things Tell Big Stories This Week Ancient Agricultural Practices All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

Little Things Tell Big Stories This Week

Marcus Chen - Jun 15, 2026
The Glass in the Grass: How Phytoliths Record the Past Botanical Macro-remains and Phytoliths All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

The Glass in the Grass: How Phytoliths Record the Past

Marcus Chen - Jun 13, 2026
What’s For Dinner? Finding 10,000-Year-Old Scraps in the Dirt Botanical Macro-remains and Phytoliths All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

What’s For Dinner? Finding 10,000-Year-Old Scraps in the Dirt

Marcus Chen - Jun 2, 2026
Old Ash and New Secrets: How Burnt Wood Tracks Ancient Climates Chronological Dating and Frameworks All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

Old Ash and New Secrets: How Burnt Wood Tracks Ancient Climates

Marcus Chen - May 31, 2026
Reading the Ghost Forests in the Dirt Chronological Dating and Frameworks All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

Reading the Ghost Forests in the Dirt

Marcus Chen - May 30, 2026
The First Bakers: How Burnt Crumbs Changed Everything Chronological Dating and Frameworks All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

The First Bakers: How Burnt Crumbs Changed Everything

Marcus Chen - May 22, 2026
Soil Micromorphology and Stratigraphy

The Glass Skeletons Hidden in Your Garden Soil

Marcus Chen - May 20, 2026
Botanical Macro-remains and Phytoliths

Reading the Ash: Ancient Forest Secrets

Marcus Chen - May 20, 2026
Taphonomy and Preservation Science

How Burnt Seeds Tell the Story of Our First Farms

Marcus Chen - May 20, 2026
Reading the Ash: How Ancient Fire Reveals the Secrets of the Land High-Resolution Analytical Techniques All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

Reading the Ash: How Ancient Fire Reveals the Secrets of the Land

Marcus Chen - May 18, 2026
Nature's Medicine Cabinet: Finding Ancient Healing in a Pinch of Dust High-Resolution Analytical Techniques All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

Nature's Medicine Cabinet: Finding Ancient Healing in a Pinch of Dust

Marcus Chen - May 14, 2026
The Secrets Hidden in Burnt Toast: How Ancient Leftovers Reveal the First Farmers Soil Micromorphology and Stratigraphy All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

The Secrets Hidden in Burnt Toast: How Ancient Leftovers Reveal the First Farmers

Marcus Chen - May 12, 2026
The Invisible World of Plant Glass Taphonomy and Preservation Science All rights reserved to queryadvise.com

The Invisible World of Plant Glass

Marcus Chen - May 11, 2026
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