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

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 75-83

  Lancelotti, Carla ^a   Ruiz Pérez, Javier ^a,b   García Granero, Juan José ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anthropic activity markers; Ethnography; Fuel; Geochemistry; India; Phytoliths

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964680456     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-016-0574-y     Document Type: Article

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