Phytoliths - Applications in Earth Science and Human HistoryJean Dominique Meunier, Fabrice Colin This impeccably-researched volume skillfully reports and discusses advances in phytolith research, addressing in particular the use of phytoliths for deciphering fundamental issues in earth science and human history. Comprising thirty reviews and original papers, findings are presented in the following five sections: · phytoliths in palaeoclimatology and palaeoecology · phytoliths, diet and health · archaeological structures, ancient agricultures and palaeoethnobotany · methodology, taxonomy and taphonomy · soil-plant interaction. |
Contents
Twiss P C | 7 |
Blinnikov M et al | 27 |
Sase T and Hosono M | 57 |
Runge F | 73 |
Hodson M J et al | 87 |
Puech P F et al | 101 |
Rovner I | 119 |
Campos S et al | 129 |
Wurschmidt A E and Korstanje A | 143 |
Madella M | 173 |
Kajale M D and Eksambekar S P | 199 |
Lentfer C J et al | 213 |
Vrydaghs L et al | 239 |
Common terms and phrases
abundance acid aestivum Agropyron Agropyron spicatum artefact Artemisia Bambusoideae bilobates biogenic biogenic silica Bitokara Blinnikov bulliform Busacca C4 grass carbon Carp Lake cell phytoliths cereal chloridoid classification climate conifer Cyperaceae deposits dicots dicotyledons durum Elongate epidermal excavations Festuca Festucoid Figure forest fossil Fredlund Gramineae grass phytoliths grassland gymnosperms Hodson Holocene Husk identified indicate inflorescence isotope Kebara cave Kondo La Favorite Lapita layer leaf levels lignin loess long cells morphology morphotypes Mulholland S.C. observed obsidian opal phytoliths Panicoid papillae pasta Pearsall phyto phytolith analysis phytolith assemblages phytolith data phytolith record phytolith studies Phytolith Systematics phytolith types Pinus Piperno D.R. pits plant Poaceae pollen present Quaternary ratio region Research Rovner sagebrush Sase sedges sediments short cells shows shrub silica skeletons species spectra steppe Stipa surface Table taxa tephra tion tissues toliths trees trichome Triticum Tuzusai Twiss vegetation West New Britain wheat zone
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Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology Elizabeth Reitz,C. Margaret Scarry,Sylvia J. Scudder Limited preview - 2008 |