Paleobotany

The gift of the variation and dispersion of maize: Social and technological context in Amerindian societies (2006)

by Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo

(with Renée M. Bonzani)
2006 The Gift of the Variation and Dispersion of Maize: Social and Technological Context in Amerindian Societies. In Histories of maize: multidisciplinary approaches to the prehistory, domestication and evolution of maize, edited by John Staller, Robert Tykot, and Bruce Benz, pp. 343-356. Elsevier Inc., London.

Cultural practices surrounding reciprocity are explore to explain why ceramics and maize spread successfully into... more Cultural practices surrounding reciprocity are explore to explain why ceramics and maize spread successfully into certain regions of South America while only scant evidence of maize and ceramics occurs in the Amazon Basin and the Caribbean. The research suggests that maize use as a fermented beverage was only one option for developing reciprocal social relations. The manufacture of intoxicating beverages from plants such as manioc tubers, potatoes, pineapples, and palm fruits would have limited the spread of maize into those regions where indigenous groups already uses these alternatives or did not drink alcoholic beverages. This article analyses the differential social role of maize and early ceramic dispersion in South America and the Caribbean by taking into account the consumption of fermented beverages.

Morphological trends in the fossil pollen of Decodon and the paleobiogeographic history of the genus

by Fridgeir Grimsson

2012
Fridgeir Grimsson, David K. Ferguson, Reinhard Zetter
International Journal of Plant Sciences

A late Miocene leaf assemblage from Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, and its climatic implications

by Mike Pole

Was New Zealand a primary source for the New Caledonian flora?

by Mike Pole

Early Eocene dispersed cuticles and mangrove to rainforest vegetation at Strahan-Regatta Point, Tasmania

by Mike Pole

Monocot macrofossils from the Miocene of southern New Zealand

by Mike Pole

Deciduous Nothofagus leaves from the Miocene of Cornish Head, New Zealand

by Mike Pole

Early Miocene floras from central Otago, New Zealand

by Mike Pole

Latest Albian–earliest Cenomanian monocotyledonous leaves from Australia

by Mike Pole

Eocene plant macrofossils from erratics, McMurdo Sound, Antartica

by Mike Pole

Lauraceae macrofossils and dispersed cuticle from the Miocene of southern New Zealand

by Mike Pole

Repeated flood events and fossil forests at Curio Bay (Middle Jurassic), New Zealand

by Mike Pole

Dispersed leaf cuticle from the Early Miocene of southern New Zealand

by Mike Pole

The Proteaceae record in New Zealand

by Mike Pole

Changing landscape and grazing: macroremains from the terp Peins-east, province of Friesland, the Netherlands

by Annet Nieuwhof

Published in: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 15, 2006.

This article seeks to contribute some new
insights to the discussion about the colonisation of themore This article seeks to contribute some new
insights to the discussion about the colonisation of the
North-Netherlands coastal area in the Iron Age. The aim
of the study presented here was to investigate whether
archaeobotanical research can demonstrate the absence
or presence of grazing and the changes in vegetation that
follow the development of the salt marsh and that may
be related to activities connected with human occupation.
The material studied was sampled in the terp of Peins
in the Dutch province of Friesland during the 1999
excavation. The beginnings of this terp can be dated in the
first century A.D., although a small dike and two parallel
ditches preceded it. The macroremains from these ditches
proved useful in describing the changes in the salt marsh
vegetation. It was shown that the salt marsh was not used
for grazing cattle prior to habitation. Grazing only started
at the time the first terp podium was raised.

Englum 9: Botanische resten

by Annet Nieuwhof

Published in: De leege Wier van Englum; Archeologisch onderzoek in het Reitdiepgebied (= Jaarverslagen van de Vereniging voor Terpenonderzoek 91) 2008.
Co-author: Henk Woldring

A Jurassic (Pliensbachian) flora from Bornholm, Denmark – a study of a historic plant-fossil collection at Lund University, Sweden

by Kristina Mehlqvist

Pole 2012 NZ Inventory of Biodiversity Vol 3 Chap 26 Plant macrofossils

by Mike Pole

Dicotyledonous leaf macrofossils from the latest Albian-earliest Cenomanian of the Eromanga Basin, Queensland, Australia

by Mike Pole

Plant-macrofossil assemblages during Pliocene uplift, South Island, New Zealand

by Mike Pole