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 …

Phytoliths are efficient proxies in archaeology, plant taxonomy, palaeoenvironment, and
palaeoecology reconstruction, the research of which has been developing rapidly in recent …

Although climate change is considered to have been a large-scale driver of African human
evolution, landscape-scale shifts in ecological resources that may have shaped novel …

Phytoliths are ergastic siliceous substances present abundantly within intercellular spaces
as well as inside the cells of numerous plants. Being made up of silica, they are …

The earliest evidence of agriculture in the Horn of Africa dates to the Pre-Aksumite period
(ca. 1600 BCE). Domesticated C3 cereals are considered to have been introduced from the …

Modern Homo sapiens engage in substantial ecosystem modification, but it is difficult to
detect the origins or early consequences of these behaviors. Archaeological …

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 The Middle to Later Stone Age transition in Africa has been debated as a significant
shift in human technological, cultural, and cognitive evolution. However, the majority of …

Angiosperms became the dominant plant group in early to middle Cretaceous terrestrial
ecosystems, coincident with the timing of the earliest pulse of bird diversification. While living …

Long-term wood anatomical research has shown that 10% of the world's trees and shrubs
produce silica in their wood, but silica production in bark had never been systematically …