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A Bibliography of Opal Phytoliths

Pearsall to Umlauf

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Pearsall, Deborah M. 1993 Contributions of phytolith analysis for reconstructing subsistence: Examples from research in Ecuador. Pearsall, Deborah M. and Piperno, Dolores R. MASCA: Current Research in Phytolith Analysis: Applications in archaeology and paleoecology 10, 109-122.

Pearsall, Deborah M. 2002 Maize is still ancient in prehistoric Ecuador: The view from Real Alto, with comments on Staller and Thompson. Journal of Archaeological Science 29:51-55.

Pearsall, Deborah M. and Dolores R. Piperno 1990 Antiquity of maize cultivation in Ecuador: Summary and reevaluation of the evidence. American Antiquity 55(2):324-337.

Piperno, Dolores R. 1993 Phytolith and charcoal records from deep lake cores in the American tropics. Pearsall, Deborah M. and Piperno, Dolores R. MASCA: Current Research in Phytolith Analysis: Applications in archaeology and paleoecology 10, 59-71.

Piperno, Dolores R. and Pearsall, Deborah M. 1993. The nature and status of phytolith analysis. Pearsall, Deborah M. and Piperno, Dolores R. MASCA: Current Research in Phytolith Analysis: Applications in archaeology and paleoecology 10, 9-18.

Powers-Jones, Alix H. and Padmore, Joanne. 1993. The use of quantitative methods and statistical analyses in the study of opal phytoliths. Pearsall, Deborah M. and Piperno, Dolores R. MASCA: Current Research in Phytolith Analysis: Applications in archaeology and paleoecology 10, 47-56.

Rosen, Arlene M. and Stephen Weiner 1994 Identifying ancient irrigation: A new method using opaline phytoliths from emmer wheat. Journal of Archaeological Science 21:125-132.

Rowlett, Ralph M. and Pearsall, Deborah M. 1993. Archaeological age determinations derived from opal phytoliths by thermoluminescence. Pearsall, Deborah M. and Piperno, Dolores R. MASCA: Current Research in Phytolith Analysis: Applications in archaeology and paleoecology 10, 25-29.

Sobolik, Kristin D. 1996 Lithic organic residue analysis: An example from the southwestern Archaic. Journal of Field Archaeology 23(4):461-469.

Staller, John E. 2003 An examination of the paleobotanical and chronological evidence for an early introduction of maize into South America: A response to Pearsall. Journal of Archaeological Science 30373-380.

Umlauf, Marcelle. 1993. Phytolith evidence for initial period maize at Cardal, central coast of Peru. Pearsall, Deborah M. and Piperno, Dolores R. MASCA: Current Research in Phytolith Analysis: Applications in archaeology and paleoecology 10, 125-129.

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