Current research in phytolith analysis
Subtitle: applications in archaeology and paleoecology
By: edited by Deborah M. Pearsall and Dolores R. Piperno
Series: MASCA research papers in science and archaeology -- v. 10
Publisher: MASCA, the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Palökologie; Aufsatzsammlung; Archäologie; Phytolith; Archaeological geology; Plant remains (Archaeology); Paleoecology; Methodology; Arqueologia e paleobotanica; Paleoecologia; Paleobotanica; Géoarchéologie; Archéobotanique; Archéologie préhistorique; Méthodologie
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-199)-and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The nature and status of phytolith analysis / Dolores R. Piperno and Deborah M. Pearsall; title: New techniques and approaches; title: AMS radiocarbon dating of phytoliths / Susan C. Mulholland and Christine Prior; title: Archaeological age determinations derived from opal phytoliths by thermoluminescence / Ralph M. Rowlett and Deborah M. Pearsall; title: Analysis of pollen and phytoliths in residue from a colonial period ceramic vessel / John G. Jones; title: Paleoenvironmental interpretations of stable carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen isotopes from opal phytoliths, Eustis Ash Pit, Nebraska / Glen G. Fredlund; title: The use of quantitative methods and statistical analyses in the study of opal phytoliths / Alix H. Powers-Jones and Joanne Padmore; title: Paleoecological reconstruction; title: Phytolith and charcoal records from Deep Lake Cores in the American tropics / Dolores R. Piperno; title: 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; title: A geoarchaeological analysis of phytolith data from the Beer Creek Site, Cedar County, Missouri / James A. Donohue and Elizabeth H. Dinan; title: Biosilicate assemblages of Boreal forests and Aspen parklands / Steven Bozarth; title: Subsistence and agriculture; title: Contributions of phytolith analysis for reconstructing subsistence: examples from research in Ecuador / Deborah M. Pearsall; title: Phytolith evidence for initial period maize at Cardal, Central Coast of Peru / Marcelle Umlauf; title: A test of phytolith analysis at Bid Hidatsa, North Dakota / Susan C. Mulholland; title: Research into the history of rice cultivation using plant opal analysis / Hiroshi Fujiwara; title: Phytolith evidence for early cereal exploitation in the levant / Arlene Miller Rosen; title: Commentary; title: Phytolith research: a look toward the future / Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr.