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the International Phytolith Society.
Advances in morphometrics in archaeobotany
Portillo, M., Ball, T.B., Wallace, M., Murphy, C., Pérez-Díaz, S., Ruiz-Alonso, M., Aceituno, F. J., López-Sáez, J. A. 2019. Advances in morphometrics in archaeobotany. Environmental Archaeology: the Journal of Human […]
The new code for phytolith nomenclature, version 2.0 will soon be published !
The International Committee for Phytolith Taxonomy (ICPT) has worked hard ! and the paper by Katharina Neumann, Rosa Maria Albert, Terry Ball, Linda Scott Cummings, Caroline Strömberg, and Luc Vrydaghs […]
August 2019 Summer school in Bruxelles, Belgium
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Phytoliths in Paleoecology: A review !
Caroline A. E. Strömberg, Regan E. Dunn, Camilla Crifò, and Elisha B. Harris. 2018. Chapter 12 – Phytoliths in Paleoecology: Analytical Considerations, Current Use, and Future Directions. D. A. Croft […]
When the carbon being dated is not what you think it is: Insights from phytolith carbon research
Guaciara M. Santos, Armand Masion, Anne Alexandre, 2018. When the carbon being dated is not what you think it is: Insights from phytolith carbon research. Quaternary Science Reviews 197 (2018) […]
Phytoliths as an indicator of early modern humans plant gathering strategies, fire fuel and site occupation intensity during the Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle Point 5-6 (south coast, South Africa)
Esteban I, Marean CW, Fisher EC, Karkanas P, Cabanes D, Albert RM (2018) Phytoliths as an indicator of early modern humans plant gathering strategies, fire fuel and site occupation intensity […]
Subdecadal phytolith and charcoal records from Lake Malawi, East Africa imply minimal effects on human evolution from the ~74 ka Toba supereruption
Chad L. Yost, Lily J. Jackson, Jeffery R. Stone, Andrew S. Cohen, 2018. Journal of Human Evolution, v. 116, p. 75-94. Our study uses phytoliths and microcharcoal from lake sediments […]
Frontiers in Phytolith Research
A special issue is in preparation at Frontiers by Martin Hodson and others: check it here! https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/7444/frontiers-in-phytolith-research
The 11th International Meeting on Phytolith Research
Wuhan , China. 13th-16th of September 2018.
Distribution modelling of pre-Columbian California grasslands with soil phytoliths: New insights for prehistoric grassland ecology and restoration
Fick, S.E., and R.R. Evett. 2018. Distribution modelling of pre-Columbian California grasslands with soil phytoliths: New insights for prehistoric grassland ecology and restoration. PLoS ONE 13(4):e0194315. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194315 This article opens […]
Sea-level fluctuations and the developing Hemudu culture in the Lower Yangtze River, China
Keyang He, Houyuan Lu, Yunfei Zheng, Jianping Zhang, Deke Xu, Xiujia Huan, Jiehua Wang, and Shao Lei. 2018. Middle-Holocene Sea-Level Fluctuations Interrupted the Developing Hemudu Culture in the Lower Yangtze […]