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A 2400 yr Mesoamerican rainfall reconstruction links climate and cultural change

scientific article

A few kernels short of a cob: on the Staller and Thompson late entry scenario for the introduction of maize into northern South America

scientific article published in July 2003

A model of agricultural origins

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Aboriginal agriculture and land usage in the Amazon Basin, Ecuador

scientific article published in November 1990

Anthropogenic influence on Amazonian forests in pre-history: An ecological perspective

Assessing elements of an extended evolutionary synthesis for plant domestication and agricultural origin research

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Changes in starch grain morphologies from cooking

Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago

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Climate change and the integrity of science

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Comment on "Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition".

scientific article published in October 2017

Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2014)

Distinguishing rice (Oryza sativa Poaceae) from wild Oryza species through Phytolith analysis: Results of preliminary research

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Early agriculture in southeast Asia: phytolith evidence from the Bang Pakong Valley, Thailand

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Early maize agriculture and interzonal interaction in southern Peru

scientific article published in March 2006

Ecological legacies of past fire and human activity in a Panamanian forest

scientific article published on 20 November 2022

Evidence for the control of phytolith formation in Cucurbita fruits by the hard rind (Hr) genetic locus: Archaeological and ecological implications

scientific article

Experimenting with domestication: Understanding macro- and micro-phenotypes and developmental plasticity in teosinte in its ancestral pleistocene and early holocene environments

scientific article published in August 2019

Further evidence for localized, short-term anthropogenic forest alterations across pre-Columbian Amazonia

scientific article published on 15 May 2017

Human behavioral ecology, phenotypic (developmental) plasticity, and agricultural origins: insights from the emerging evolutionary synthesis

scientific article published in October 2009

Identification of teosinte, maize, and Tripsacum in Mesoamerica by using pollen, starch grains, and phytoliths

scientific article (publication date: 6 November 2007)

Jon G. Hather (ed.). Tropical archaeobotany: application and new developments. (One World Archaeobotany 22.) xx + 270 pages, 52 illustrations, tables. 1994. London & New York (NY); Routledge; 0-415-09784-3 hardback £45

Microfossil evidence for pre-Columbian maize dispersals in the neotropics from San Andres, Tabasco, Mexico

scientific article (publication date: 17 April 2007)

Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium)

scientific article (publication date: 11 January 2011)

New evidence for the processing of wild cereal grains at Ohalo II, a 23 000-year-old campsite on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel

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Opal phytoliths in Southeast Asian flora ⬇️

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.

Paleontology. Dinosaurs dined on grass

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Particularism and the retreat from theory in the archaeology of agricultural origins.

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Phylogenetic relationships among domesticated and wild species of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae) inferred from a mitochondrial gene: Implications for crop plant evolution and areas of origin ⬇️

scientific article published on January 8, 2002

Phytolith Analysis: An Archaeological and Geological Perspective

scholarly article by Deborah M. Pearsall published in October 1989

Phytolith Assemblages Along a Gradient of Ancient Human Disturbance in Western Amazonia

scientific article published in 2015

Phytolith evidence for early Holocene Cucurbita domestication in southwest Ecuador

scientific article published on February 2003

Phytolith radiocarbon dating in archaeological and paleoecological research: a case study of phytoliths from modern Neotropical plants and a review of the previous dating evidence

scientific article published in April 2016

Phytolithic analysis of geological sediments from Panama

Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world

scholarly article by Terry Ball published in April 2016

Phytoliths in Cucurbita and other Neotropical Cucurbitaceae and their Occurrence in Early Archaeological Sites from the Lowland American Tropics

scientific article published in March 2000

Phytoliths in modern plants from Amazonia and the Neotropics at large: II. Enhancement of eudicotyledon reference collections

scientific article published in 2023

Phytoliths in modern plants from amazonia and the neotropics at large: Implications for vegetation history reconstruction

scientific article published in 2020

Phytoliths in the Reproductive Structures of Maize and Teosinte: Implications for the Study of Maize Evolution

scientific article published in May 1993

Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans

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Preceramic maize from Paredones and Huaca Prieta, Peru

scientific article (publication date: 31 January 2012)

Processing of wild cereal grains in the Upper Palaeolithic revealed by starch grain analysis

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Reply to Collins and Copeland: Spontaneous gelatinization not supported by evidence.

scientific article published on 4 May 2011

Reply to Perttula: Identifying an early Holocene projectile point type from central Mexico

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Reply to Smith: On distinguishing between models, hypotheses, and theoretical frameworks

scientific article published on July 2014

Reply to Zeder: Maintaining a diverse scientific toolkit is not an act of faith.

scientific article published on July 2014

Rethinking Agriculture: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives. Tim Denham , José Iriarte , Luc Vrydaghs

Simple technologies and diverse food strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, Coastal Peru

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Spatial and temporal scales of pre-Columbian disturbance associated with western Amazonian lakes

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Standard evaluations of bomb curves and age calibrations along with consideration of environmental and biological variability show the rigor of phytolith dates on modern neotropical plants: Review of comment by Santos, Alexandre, and Prior

Starch fossils and the domestication and dispersal of chili peppers (Capsicum spp. L.) in the Americas

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Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico

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Starch grains on human teeth reveal early broad crop diet in northern Peru

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Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene human adaptation in coastal Ecuador: the Las Vegas evidence

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The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the New World Tropics

scientific article (publication date: October 2011)

The cultural and chronological context of early Holocene maize and squash domestication in the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico

scientific article

The potential role of genetic assimilation during maize domestication

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Using plant microfossils from dental calculus to recover human diet: a case study from Tell al-Raqā'i, Syria

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