Phytoliths in Archaeology: Practical Methods, Theoretical Methods, and Key Examples of Phytoliths in Archaeology...

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Sarah Elliott Philippa Ryan

Phytoliths in Archaeology

Practical Methods, Theoretical Methods, and Key Examples of Phytoliths in Archaeology from Around...

Sarah Elliott, Philippa Ryan, Dan Cabanes

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Oxbow Books
15 July 2024

Landscape archaeology; Environmental archaeology; Archaeological methodology & techniques; Botany & plant sciences

Series: Studying Scientific Archaeology

Phytoliths are microscopic silica bodies formed in and around plant cells. Phytoliths are extremely robust and survive in most archaeological sediments. Phytoliths survive when other botanical remains do not, and they do not require charring to survive. This book summarizes how silica phytoliths can be used by archaeologists by covering practical aspects, some general theory and key examples of where phytoliths have been used to answer a wide range of research questions from around the world. The examples in this book show how phytolith analysis can contribute to our archaeological knowledge in particular past human behavior, economies and environments. This book is aimed at practicing archaeologists and students rather than phytolith specialists or environmental archaeologists. This book showcases phytolith analysis in archaeology and outlines the potential research questions that phytoliths can answer as well as how and where to take samples.

Edited by: Sarah Elliott, Philippa Ryan, Dan Cabanes
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 8
Dimensions: Height: 270mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789259797
ISBN 10: 1789259797
Series: Studying Scientific Archaeology
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 July 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Sarah Elliott is Deputy Head of Department for Life & Environmental Sciences at Bournemouth University. She obtained her PhD from the University of Reading in 2016. Elliott specialises in geoarchaeology, environmental archaeology and palaeoecology, and has worked on phytoliths from South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East, with a specific focus on early Neolithic farming societies in southwest Asia.149532 Philippa Ryan is a Research Group Leader in Interdisciplinary Research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London. Ryan specialises in ethnobotany and archaeobotany, including phytoliths and macrobotanical remains. Her work on phytoliths has focused on southwest Asia and North Africa, and has also included projects from Europe, West Africa and Central Asia. 149530 Dan Cabanes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and a full faculty member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES) and the Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS). Cabanes is the director of the Department of Anthropology Laboratory for MicroArchaeology (ALMA), which focuses on the study of the microscopic archaeological record. 149531