Exploitation and utilization of tropical rainforests indicated in dental calculus of ancient Oceanic Lapita culture colonists

Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago

(2019) Oshan Wedage et al.   Nature Communications

International Code for Phytolith Nomenclature (ICPN) 2.0

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Growth rings of Brazil nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) as a living record of historical human disturbance in Central Amazonia

(2019) Victor L. Caetano Andrade et al.   PLoS One

The ‘cultured rainforests’ of Borneo

(2017) Graeme Barker et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Wood and bark phytoliths of West African woody plants

(2017) Lucia Veronica Collura et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Traditional Banana Diversity in Oceania: An Endangered Heritage

(2016) Valérie Kagy et al.   PLoS One

Differentiating dietary and non-dietary microfossils extracted from human dental calculus: the importance of sweet potato to ancient diet on Rapa Nui

(2015) Monica Tromp et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Avifauna from the Teouma Lapita Site, Efate Island, Vanuatu, including a New Genus and Species of Megapode

(2015) Trevor H. Worthy et al.   PACIFIC SCIENCE

Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals

(2015) Rebecca Grollemund et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Direct evidence for human reliance on rainforest resources in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka

(2015) P. Roberts et al.   SCIENCE

Epidermal Patterning and Silica Phytoliths in Grasses: An Evolutionary History

(2014) Paula J. Rudall et al.   BOTANICAL REVIEW

Radiocarbon dating of burials from the Teouma Lapita cemetery, Efate, Vanuatu

(2014) Fiona Petchey et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Lapita Diet in Remote Oceania: New Stable Isotope Evidence from the 3000-Year-Old Teouma Site, Efate Island, Vanuatu

(2014) Rebecca Kinaston et al.   PLoS One

Scurvy in a tropical paradise? Evaluating the possibility of infant and adult vitamin C deficiency in the Lapita skeletal sample of Teouma, Vanuatu, Pacific islands

(2014) Hallie R. Buckley et al.   International Journal of Paleopathology

Microfossil and Fourier Transform InfraRed analyses of Lapita and post-Lapita human dental calculus from Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific

(2013) M Horrocks et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND

Multidisciplinary perspectives on banana (Musa spp.) domestication

(2011) X. Perrier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The palaeoenvironments of Kuk Swamp from the beginnings of agriculture in the highlands of Papua New Guinea

(2011) Simon G. Haberle et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Long-term perspectives on human occupation of tropical rainforests: An introductory overview

(2011) Huw Barton et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Late Cretaceous origin of the rice tribe provides evidence for early diversification in Poaceae

(2011) V. Prasad et al.   Nature Communications

IntroducedDioscoreaspp. starch in Lapita and later deposits, Vao Island, Vanuatu

(2010) M Horrocks et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific

(2010) A. W. White et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Human Adaptation and Plant Use in Highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 Years Ago

(2010) G. R. Summerhayes et al.   SCIENCE

A short note on banana (Musa) phytoliths in Lapita, immediately post-Lapita and modern period archaeological deposits from Vanuatu

(2009) M. Horrocks et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Investigating foetal and perinatal mortality in prehistoric skeletal samples: a case study from a 3000-year-old Pacific Island cemetery site

(2009) R.L. Kinaston et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE