Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa

Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago

(2020) Lyn Wadley et al.   SCIENCE

A perched, high-elevation wetland complex in the Atacama Desert (northern Chile) and its implications for past human settlement

(2019) Luca Sitzia et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

International Code for Phytolith Nomenclature (ICPN) 2.0

(2019) et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Phytoliths as an indicator of early modern humans plant gathering strategies, fire fuel and site occupation intensity during the Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle Point 5-6 (south coast, South Africa)

(2018) Irene Esteban et al.   PLoS One

Phytoliths in modern plants and soils from Klasies River, Cape Region (South Africa)

(2018) Alice Novello et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Chemical Characteristics of Biomass Ashes

(2018) Grzegorz Zając et al.   Energies

Revisiting Mwulu’s Cave: new insights into the Middle Stone Age in the southern African savanna biome

(2018) P. de la Peña et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Identifying early modern human ecological niche expansions and associated cultural dynamics in the South African Middle Stone Age

(2017) Francesco d’Errico et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The early Upper Palaeolithic of Cova de les Cendres (Alicante, Spain)

(2017) Valentín Villaverde et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

An integrated study of Dark Earth from the alluvial valley of the Senne river (Brussels, Belgium)

(2017) Yannick Devos et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Phytoliths in plants from the south coast of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa)

(2017) Irene Esteban et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

The Anthropogenic Use of Firewood During the European Middle Pleistocene: Charcoal Evidence from Levels XIII and XI of Bolomor Cave, Eastern Iberia (230–160 ka)

(2017) Paloma Vidal-Matutano et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Investigating fuel and fireplaces with a combination of phytoliths and multi-element analysis; an ethnographic experiment

(2016) Carla Lancelotti et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

The first herders in the upper Ebro basin at Los Husos II (Álava, Spain): microarchaeology applied to fumier deposits

(2016) Mónica Alonso-Eguíluz et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Inside Wood – A Web resource for hardwood anatomy

(2016)   IAWA JOURNAL

Refining Our Understanding of Howiesons Poort Lithic Technology: The Evidence from Grey Rocky Layer in Sibudu Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

(2015) Paloma de la Peña   PLoS One

Neanderthal use of plants and past vegetation reconstruction at the Middle Paleolithic site of Abrigo de la Quebrada (Chelva, Valencia, Spain)

(2015) I. Esteban et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

‘Fire at will’: The emergence of habitual fire use 350,000 years ago

(2014) Ron Shimelmitz et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Embers of society: Firelight talk among the Ju/’hoansi Bushmen

(2014) Polly W. Wiessner   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Holocene semi-arid oak woodlands in the Irano-Anatolian region of Southwest Asia: natural or anthropogenic?

(2014) Eleni Asouti et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Infrared Attenuated Total Reflectance Spectroscopy: An Innovative Strategy for Analyzing Mineral Components in Energy Relevant Systems

(2014) Christian Menno Müller et al.   Scientific Reports

Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and flora exploitation at the Palaeolithic cave of Theopetra, central Greece: the evidence from phytolith analysis

(2014) Georgia Tsartsidou et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Complementary Imaging Techniques for Charcoal Examination and Identification

(2013) Wannes Hubau et al.   IAWA JOURNAL

Early Neolithic household behavior at Tell Seker al-Aheimar (Upper Khabur, Syria): a comparison to ethnoarchaeological study of phytoliths and dung spherulites

(2013) Marta Portillo et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The forest people: landscape and firewood use in the Araruama region, southeastern Brazil, during the late Holocene

(2013) Rita Scheel-Ybert et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

The Exploitation of Plant Resources by Early Homo sapiens: The Phytolith Record from Pinnacle Point 13B Cave, South Africa

(2012) Rosa M. Albert et al.   GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa

(2012) F. Berna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Border Cave and the beginning of the Later Stone Age in South Africa

(2012) P. Villa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pedoanthracology: Analysing soil charcoal to study Holocene palaeoenvironments

(2012) Oliver Nelle et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

C3 Poaceae and Restionaceae phytoliths as potential proxies for reconstructing winter rainfall in South Africa

(2012) Carlos E. Cordova   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

The 9th century BCE destruction layer at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel: integrating macro- and microarchaeology

(2011) Dvory Namdar et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe

(2011) W. Roebroeks et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Late Pliocene woody vegetation of Area 41, Koobi Fora, East Turkana Basin, Kenya

(2011) Marion K. Bamford   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Charcoal identification in species-rich biomes: A protocol for Central Africa optimised for the Mayumbe forest

(2011) Wannes Hubau et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Middle Stone Age Bedding Construction and Settlement Patterns at Sibudu, South Africa

(2011) L. Wadley et al.   SCIENCE

Phytolith evidence for hearths and beds in the late Mousterian occupations of Esquilleu cave (Cantabria, Spain)

(2010) Dan Cabanes et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Rapid phytolith extraction for analysis of phytolith concentrations and assemblages during an excavation: an application at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel

(2010) Ofir Katz et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Abbreviations for names of rock-forming minerals

(2009) D. L. Whitney et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Rapid characterisation of archaeological midden components using FT-IR spectroscopy, SEM–EDX and micro-XRD

(2009) Lisa-Marie Shillito et al.   SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY

Bedding, hearths, and site maintenance in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

(2009) Paul Goldberg et al.   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences