[Aqualist] Phytolith and starch research: Contents

[Dr Diane Hart]

Further to my advice on price and availability (yesterday), the papers from the conference on Phytoliths and Starch held at ANU in 2001 are listed below:


Hart, D.M. and L.A. Wallis.  2003.  Phytolith and starch research in the Austrlaian-Pacific-Asian regions: the state of the art.  terra australis 19.  Pandanus Books.
Contents

Introduction

Wallis, L.A. and D.M. Hart: The history of phytolith researchers in Australia

Techniques

Parr, J.F. and K. Farrugia: Waste reduction and value adding during fossil phytolith extraction and palaeoenvironmental analysis of volcanic sediments and tephra using microwave digestion and ICP/MS

Wallis, L.A.:Phytoliths and other microfossils in tufa formations as a novel source of palaeoenvironmental data

Prebble, M.J.: Quantitative approaches to phytolith analysis for palaeoenvironmental research: A review

Coil, J.: Design, methods and initial results for microfossil research in Kahikinui, Maui, Hawaiian Islands 

Taphonomy

Babot, M.: Starch grain damage as an indicator of food processing

Hart, D.M.: The influence of soil fauna on phytolith distribution in an Australian soil 

Humphreys, G.S., D.M. Hart, N. Simons and R.J. Field.: Phytoliths as indicators of process in soils 

Korstanje, A.: Taphonomy in the laboratory: Starch damage and multiple microfossil recovery from sediments 

Lu, T. L-D.: The survival of starch residue in a subtropical environment

Applications

Carter, J.A.: Phytolith analysis of Ipomoea batatas (kumara) and Lagenaria siceraria (gourd) in New Zealand: A method of providing direct evidence of pre-historic farming in ancient Polynesia 

Clarkson, C. and L.A. Wallis.: The search for El Nino/Southern Oscillation in archaeological sites: Recent results from Jugali-ya Rockshelter, Wardaman Country 

Haslam, M.: Evidence for maize processing on 2000 year old obsidian artefacts from Copan, Honduras 

Huang, F. and L. Minchang: Pollen and phytolith records from primitive paddy fields during the Neolithic at Caoxieshan, Taihu Plain, southern China 

Vrydaghs, L., Ro Swennen, Ch. Mbida, H. Doutrelepont, E. De Langhe and P. de Maret.: The banana phytolith as a direct marker of early tropical agriculture: A review of the evidence

Pearsall, D.M.: Integrating biological data: Phytoliths and starch grains, health and diet, at Real Alto, Ecuador



Di Hart

Dr Diane Hart
Honorary Associate
Physical Geography Department
Macquarie University
Tel: 02 4982 0787
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