Plants' ability to take up silicon from the soil, accumulate it within their tissues and then
reincorporate it into the soil through litter creates an intricate network of feedback …

Herbivore livestock dung has been identified in archaeological sites around the world.
Focusing on dung from the ubiquitous Old World herbivorous domesticates–sheep, goats …

This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

The archaeological record is a combination of what is seen by eye, as well as the
microscopic record revealed with the help of instrumentation. The information embedded in …

A guide to the systematic understanding of the geoarchaeological matrix Reconstructing
Archaeological Sites offers an important text that puts the focus on basic theoretical and …

Opaline phytoliths are important microfossils used in archaeological and ecological
research. Relatively little is known about the stability of phytoliths after burial. Under alkaline …

Phytoliths, microscopic plant silica bodies, are often preserved in modern and fossil soils
and sediment, as well as in archaeological contexts. They record unique characteristics of …

Abstract Tell Seker al-Aheimar, located in the Upper Khabur, northeastern Syria, is an early
Neolithic settlement that chrono-culturally spans from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) to …

A number of recent articles emphasize the fundamental importance of taphonomy and
formation processes to interpretation of plant remains assemblages, as well as the value of …

Phytoliths are silica casts of plant cells, created within and between living tissues across
almost all plant clades. Because they are abundant, durable and distinctive, phytoliths are …