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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"phytolith analysis"”.
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The Shape of Seeing: An Ethnography of Phytolith Analysis
Phytolith analysis is the study of microscopic silica fossils which often take on the shape. of the plant cells in which they form. This thesis proposes that in order to understand the phytoliths’ original plant context, researchers conduct cycles of phytolith analysis consisting of six stages – …
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Phytolith Analysis as a Palaeoecological Tool for Reconstructing Mid-to Late-Pleistocene Environments in the Olorgesailie Basin, Kenya
… for preservation of organic plant microfossils. Phytolith analysis is used to reconstruct the vegetation history and understand hominin habitat preference during mid-late Pleistocene (~746-64 ka). A localised modern phytolith analogue is used to interpret the fossil assemblage. Descriptive …
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Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments and Middle-Late Stone Age habitat preferences in the Nakuru-Naivasha Basin, Kenya: phytolith-based evidence from the site of Prospect Farm
… settings, this thesis reports the results of phytolith-based vegetation reconstructions and geoarchaeological investigations from renewed excavations at the open-air site of Prospect Farm, Mt. Eburru, Nakuru-Naivasha Basin, Kenya, as part of the In-Africa project (INAP). The Prospect Farm …
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Considering the importance of wetlands to hunter-gatherer adaptation : a microbotanical investigation of Late Pleistocene plant-use in the Eastern Levant
… main objective of this dissertation is to employ phytolith and micro-charcoal analysis to explore through direct evidence, the long-term patterns of Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer plant-use in the Eastern Levant. The phytolith data presented in this dissertation demonstrates clearly that …
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A reconstruction of the mid-to late Pleistocene plant community along the southwestern coast of South Africa using phytolith evidence
… In response to this need, I analysed plant phytoliths extracted from sediments sampled at EFT and DFT. The results of this analysis are reported and interpreted in this thesis. To assist with the interpretation of the EFT and DFT phytolith assemblages, I established a modern phytolith …
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Social Organisation And Change In Bronze Age South Asia: A multi-proxy approach to urbanisation, deurbanisation and village life through phytolith and macrobotanical analysis
… (1300-500BC) by analysing macrobotanical and phytolith remains from five rural settlements in north-west India. The Indus Civilisation has typically been characterised as a society that underwent a broadly unilinear development, and the evolution of the prevalent subsistence strategies have …