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 …

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 …

Agricultural origins and dispersals are subjects of fundamental importance to archaeology
as well as many other scholarly disciplines. These investigations are world-wide in scope …

The phytolith record from archaeological strata is a powerful tool for reconstructing aspects
of past human behaviour and ecology. Considerable insights into the problems and …

Opaline phytoliths are important microfossils used for paleoecological and archaeological
reconstructions that are primarily based on relative ratios of specific morphotypes. Recent …

Phytoliths are essential palaeoecological proxies that play an immensely important role in
palaeoclimatic studies. Their inert composition and general hardiness allow phytoliths to be …

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 …