IPS Standing Committees

International Committee on Open Phytolith Science (ICOPS)


Members:

  • Emma Karoune (Chair, The Alan Turing Institute, UK),
  • Jennifer Bates (Seoul National University, Korea),
  • Doris Barboni (IFP, Pondicherry, India),
  • Abraham Dabengwa (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa),
  • Zachary C Dunseth (Brown University, USA),
  • Juan José García-Granero (Spanish National Research Council),
  • Céline Kerfant (Research assistant on the project, UK),
  • Carla Lancelotti (ICREA),
  • Marco Madella (UPF, Spain),
  • Maria Gabriela Musaubach (National University of JuJuy, Argentina),
  • Javier Ruiz-Pérez (Texas A&M University)

International Committee on Phytolith Morphometry (ICPM)

Members:

  • Javier Ruiz-Pérez (Texas A&M University),
  • Kali Wade (Atlatl Archaeology Ltd.),
  • Kristyna Huskova (Charles U, Prague)
  • Marta Portillo (Institución Mila y Fontanals, CSIC),
  • Monica Tromp (University of Otago),
  • Rand Evett (University of California, Berkeley),
  • Welmoed Out (Moesgaard Museum), 

New project

https://phytoliths.org/news-from-the-international-committee-on-phytolith-morphometry/

Literature reference:

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 Palaeoecology. ISSN 1749-6314.
doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2019.1569351

Ball T.B., Davis, A., Evett, R.R., Ladwig, J.L., Tromp, M., Out, W., Portillo, M. 2016. Morphometric Analysis of Phytoliths: Recommendations towards Standardization from the International Committee for Phytolith Morphometric, Journal of Archaeological Science 68, 106-111. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2015.03.023

International Committee on Phytolith Taxonomy (ICPT)

Members:

  • Katharina Neumann (Goethe University)
  • Rosa Maria Albert (University of Barcelona)
  • Linda Scott Cummings (PaleoResearch Institute)
  • Caroline Strömberg (University of Washington)
  • Luc Vrydaghs (Université libre de Bruxelles)
  • Chad Yost (Indiana State University)