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Optimization of extraction method for quantitative analysis of Si/Al in soil phytoliths
Elemental information carried by phytoliths plays a crucial indicative role in geochemical research. For instance, it serves as an indicator of the...
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Phytoliths from modern plants in the Canary Islands as a reference for the reconstruction of long-term vegetation change and culture-environment interactions
The Canary Islands were the first part of the Macaronesian archipelago to have been settled by humans. The various ways in which the indigenous...
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Morphometric distinction between Acute bulbosus phytoliths (silicified epidermal hair cells) from Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica leaves
The taxonomic differentiation of Panicum miliaceu (broomcorn millet) and Setaria italica (foxtail millet) is of high relevance for archaeology and...
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Geographic mosaics of rice domestication in the lower Yangtze River indicated by morphological characteristics of rice bulliform phytoliths
The lower Yangtze River valley has widely been regarded as centres of rice domestication, tracing back to 10,000 cal a BP or even earlier in the late...
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The regulatory role of CO2 on nutrient releases from ashed rice straw phytoliths
Phytolith is widely known as a silica structure in numerous silicon (Si) accumulator plants, e.g., rice, and it contains various nutrients and other...
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Microbotanical signatures of kreb: differentiating inflorescence phytoliths from northern African wild grasses
Throughout northern Africa, evidence for an intensification of wild grass gathering is reflected in Holocene archaeological contexts. However, both...
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Phytoliths in spikelets of selected Oryzoideae species: new findings from in situ observation
Rice has been one of the most important plant resources both in modern and ancient times. Research on the origin and domestication of rice is an...
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The representativeness of the dental calculus dietary record: insights from Taï chimpanzee faecal phytoliths
In recent years, new applications of microremain dietary analysis using dental calculus as a source of dietary data on ancient human subsistence and...
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Morphological characteristics of homozygous wild rice phytoliths and their significance in the study of rice origins
The analysis of wild rice cell structures, tissues, organs, and other morphological characteristics and the development of identification markers for...
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Spatial distribution and environmental significance of phytoliths in the surface soil of the **lingol Grassland in Inner Mongolia, China
Reconstruction of grassland ecosystems and their vegetation succession is an important issue in palaeoenvironmental research. Phytoliths and pollen...
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Multi-analytical characterisation of wheat biominerals: impact of methods of extraction on the mineralogy and chemistry of phytoliths
Phytoliths from two different wheat species, Triticum monococcum and Triticum durum , known for their long-lasting significance to humans, were...
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Microbiomorphs of Soddy Solodic Planosol and Buried Organic-Accumulative Quasi-Clay Soil of West Siberia
AbstractThe pedocomplex of a mesodepression with birch grove amid steppe has been studied in Novosibirsk oblast, West Siberia. This pedocomplex...
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Could the grasses have played a role in the earliest salt exploitation? Phytoliths analysis of prehistoric salt spring from Hălăbutoaia - Ţolici (Romania)
The salt spring exploitation from Hălăbutoaia - Ţolici (Neamț County, Romania) dates back to the Early Neolithic and lasted throughout Chalcolithic....
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The history of phytolith research in Australasian archaeology and palaeoecology
Although phytolith research has come of age in archaeology and palaeoecology internationally, it has remained relatively marginalised from mainstream...
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Phytolith assemblages reflect variability in human land use and the modern environment
Phytoliths preserved in soils and sediments can be used to provide unique insights into past vegetation dynamics in response to human and climate...
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Twenty thousand leagues under plant biominerals: a deep learning implementation for automatic phytolith classification
Phytoliths constitute microscopic SiO 2 -rich biominerals formed in the cellular system of many living plants and are often preserved in soils,...
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Pen management and livestock activities based on phytoliths, dung spherulites, and minerals from Cova Gran de Santa Linya (Southeastern pre-Pyrenees)
The archaeological evidence from Cova Gran de Santa Linya suggests that during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, the site was used as a...
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Accumulation of germanium (Ge) in plant tissues of grasses is not solely driven by its incorporation in phytoliths
Ge/Si ratios of plant phytoliths have been widely used to trace biogeochemical cycling of Si. However, until recently, information on how much of the...
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New perspectives on plant-use at neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria: an integrated phytolith and spherulite study
Archaeobotanical remains contribute crucial evidence for shifts in human economy from foraging to farming, understanding early village life and the...
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Decoding Ancient Vegetation and Environment Using Potsherd Palynology: A Case Study from an Archaeological Site of Deltaic West Bengal, India
Archaeobotany deals with the interpretation of preserved plant remains from the archaeological sites in order to reconstruct the past vegetation and...