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Phytoliths: A Comprehensive Guide for Archaeologists and Paleoecologists
- D. Piperno
- Environmental Science, Geography
- 23 January 2006
1 The Production, Deposition, and Dissolution of Phytoliths 2 Phytolith Morphology 3 Phytoliths in Domesticated Plants and Their Wild Ancestors 4 Field Techniques and Research Design 5 Laboratory…
The Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland Neotropics
- D. Piperno, D. Pearsall
- Geography
- 1998
Background of Tropical Agricultural Origins. The Neotropical Ecosystem in the Present and the Past. The Phytogeography of Neotropical Crops and Their Putative wild Ancestors. The Evolution of…
Phytolith analysis : an archaeological and geological perspective
- C. Baied, D. Piperno
- Environmental Science
- 1 September 1989
This is a methodological guide to the use of plant opal phytolith analysis in paleoenvironmental and paleoecological reconstruction. It is the first book-length treatment of this promising technique,…
Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico
- D. Piperno, A. Ranere, I. Holst, J. Iriarte, Ruth E Dickau
- Biology, MedicineProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 31 March 2009
Questions that still surround the origin and early dispersals of maize (Zea mays L.) result in large part from the absence of information on its early history from the Balsas River Valley of tropical…
Early Agriculture in the Maya Lowlands
- M. Pohl, K. Pope, J. Josserand
- Environmental ScienceLatin American Antiquity
- 1 December 1996
Wetland research in northern Belize provides the earliest evidence for development of agriculture in the Maya Lowlands. Pollen data confirm the introduction of maize and manioc before 3000 B.C.…
Phylogenetic relationships among domesticated and wild species of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae) inferred from a mitochondrial gene: Implications for crop plant evolution and areas of origin
- O. Sanjur, D. Piperno, T. C. Andres, L. Wessel-Beaver
- BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 8 January 2002
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The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the New World Tropics
- D. Piperno
- BiologyCurrent Anthropology
- 4 August 2011
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Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies
- G. Larson, D. Piperno, D. Fuller
- BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 22 April 2014
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Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium)
- A. Henry, A. Brooks, D. Piperno
- Environmental ScienceProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 27 December 2010
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The earliest archaeological maize (Zea mays L.) from highland Mexico: new accelerator mass spectrometry dates and their implications.
- D. Piperno, K. V. Flannery
- Medicine, BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 13 February 2001
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