Phytolith systematics : emerging issues / edited by George Rapp, Jr. and Susan C. Mulholland.

Other author Rapp, George Robert, 1930-
Other author Mulholland, Susan C.
Other author Society for Archaeological Sciences (U.S.)
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Plenum Press, ©1992.
Descriptionxxiv, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesAdvances in archaeological and museum science ; v. 1
Advances in archaeological and museum science ; v. 1. ^A422613
Contents Phytolith systematics : an introduction / Susan C. Mulholland and George Rapp, Jr. -- Great expectations : a short historical review of European phytolith systematics / Alix H. Powers -- Developing a phytolith classification system / Deborah M. Pearsall and Elizabeth H. Dinan -- A morphological classification of grass silica-bodies / Susan C. Mulholland and George Rapp, Jr. -- Toward a classification scheme of sedge (cyperaceae) phytoliths / Amy L. Ollendorf -- Predicted world distribution of C3 and C4 grass phytoliths / Page C. Twiss -- Preliminary identification of silica skeletons from near eastern archaeological sites : an anatomical approach / Arlene Miller Rosen -- Cereal grain phytoliths of Southwest Asia and Europe / Lawrence Kaplan, Mary B. Smith and Lesley Ann Sneddon -- Illustrated phytoliths from assorted food plants / Linda Scott Cummings -- Classification of opal phytoliths formed in selected dicotyledons native to the Great Plains / Steven R. Bozarth.
Contents (cont.) Phytolith taxonomy in selected species of Texas cacti / John G. Jones and Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr. -- Silica deposition in subterranean organs / Allan G. Sangster and Martin J. Hodson -- Darwin and design in phytolith systematics : morphometric methods for mitigating redundancy / Irwin Rovner and John C. Russ -- Annotated bibliography of phytolith systematics / Susan C. Mulholland, Elizabeth J. Lawlor and Irwin Rovner.
General note"Published in cooperation with the Society for Archaeological Sciences."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-322) and indexes.
LCCN 92009588
ISBN0306442086

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Joyner General Stacks CC77.5 .P47 1992 ✔ Available Place Hold