Significance of study of phytoliths in understanding vegetational pattern in an archaeological site of West Bengal, India

Phytomorphology: An International Journal of Plant Morphology

Volumn 55, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 221-232

  Ghosh, Ruby ^c   Bera, Subir ^c   Chakraborty, Supriyo ^b   Chattopadhyay, Rupendra Kumar ^a   Banerjee, Manju ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Archaeobotany; C14 date; India; Phytolith; Poaceae; West Bengal

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEDIMENTS;

ARCHAEOBOTANY; C14 DATE; INDIA; PHYTOLITH; POACEAE; WEST BENGAL;

VEGETATION;

POACEAE; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33646390114     PISSN: 00319449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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