Current research in phytolith analysis : applications in archaeology and paleoecology /
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : MASCA, the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1993. |
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| Description: | 212 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | MASCA research papers in science and archaeology, 1048-5325 ; v. 10 MASCA research papers in science and archaeology ; v. 10. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10085758 |
Table of Contents:
- The nature and status of phytolith analysis / Dolores R. Piperno and Deborah M. Pearsall
- New techniques and approaches
- AMS radiocarbon dating of phytoliths / Susan C. Mulholland and Christine Prior
- Archaeological age determinations derived from opal phytoliths by thermoluminescence / Ralph M. Rowlett and Deborah M. Pearsall
- Analysis of pollen and phytoliths in residue from a colonial period ceramic vessel / John G. Jones
- Paleoenvironmental interpretations of stable carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen isotopes from opal phytoliths, Eustis Ash Pit, Nebraska / Glen G. Fredlund
- The use of quantitative methods and statistical analyses in the study of opal phytoliths / Alix H. Powers-Jones and Joanne Padmore
- Paleoecological reconstruction
- Phytolith and charcoal records from Deep Lake Cores in the American tropics / Dolores R. Piperno
- Vegetational changes at the Shriver Paleo-Indian site, N.W. Missouria: phytolith analysis as an aid in environmental reconstruction / Elizabeth H. Dinan and Ralph M. Rowlett
- A geoarchaeological analysis of phytolith data from the Beer Creek Site, Cedar County, Missouri / James A. Donohue and Elizabeth H. Dinan
- Biosilicate assemblages of Boreal forests and Aspen parklands / Steven Bozarth
- Subsistence and agriculture
- Contributions of phytolith analysis for reconstructing subsistence: examples from research in Ecuador / Deborah M. Pearsall
- Phytolith evidence for initial period maize at Cardal, Central Coast of Peru / Marcelle Umlauf
- A test of phytolith analysis at Bid Hidatsa, North Dakota / Susan C. Mulholland
- Research into the history of rice cultivation using plant opal analysis / Hiroshi Fujiwara
- Phytolith evidence for early cereal exploitation in the levant / Arlene Miller Rosen
- Commentary
- Phytolith research: a look toward the future / Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr.