Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world
Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world
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植硅体作为研究世界各地农业起源和传播的工具
DOI:
10.1016/j.jas.2015.08.010
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发表时间:
2016-04-01
影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
Zhang, Jianping
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作者:
Ball, Terry;Chandler-Ezell, Karol;Zhang, Jianping
Agricultural origins and dispersals are subjects of fundamental importance to archaeology as well as many other scholarly disciplines. These investigations are world-wide in scope and require significant amounts of paleobotanical data attesting to the exploitation of wild progenitors of crop plants and subsequent domestication and spread. Accordingly, for the past few decades the development of methods for identifying the remains of wild and domesticated plant species has been a focus of paleoethnobotany. Phytolith analysis has increasingly taken its place as an important independent contributor of data in all areas of the globe, and the volume of literature on the subject is now both very substantial and disseminated in a range of international journals. In this paper, experts who have carried out the hands-on work review the utility and importance of phytolith analysis in documenting the domestication and dispersals of crop plants around the world. It will serve as an important resource both to paleoethnobotanists and other scholars interested in the development and spread of agriculture. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.