Useful Phytolith Links

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Martin Hodson</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Martin Hodson"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Useful Phytolith Links</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <IMG SRC="0a0c6ba0.jpg" border=0 width="198" height="186" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Papilla phytolith from Kush, Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates (photo: S. Ishida)</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Useful Phytolith Links</I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >I am gathering good web sites on phytoliths. If you know of one do let me know! The URL's for these sites seem to frequently change. If you find a dead link</FONT> <A HREF="contact.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Martin Hodson"><U>Contact Martin Hodson</U></A></div> <bR> <div> SEE <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.phytolithsociety.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.phytolithsociety.org/"><U>The Society for Phytolith Research</U></A></FONT> for more links.</div> <bR> <div> <I>A) Databases and Bibliographies.</I></div> <div> 1)<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://webpub.byu.net/tbb/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://webpub.byu.net/tbb/"><U>Terry Ball's Phytolith Page</U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>has lots of SEM images mostly from cereals.</div> <div> 2) The most detailed site so far available is the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://web.missouri.edu/~phyto/Pages/PhytoPages/Home.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://web.missouri.edu/~phyto/Pages/Phy"><U>University of Missouri Phytolith Database</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>B) Research sites of phytolith workers</I></div> <div> 1) <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://coss.stcloudstate.edu/mblinnikov/phd/phyt.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://coss.stcloudstate.edu/mblinnikov/"><U>Mikhail Blinnikov's Phytolith Gallery</U></A></FONT> has a good selection of light and scanning electron micrographs.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >2) </FONT><A HREF="http://www.phytolith.net/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.phytolith.net/"><U>phytolith.net</U></A> -<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > the site from Marco Madella.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>C) Published Articles on the Web.</I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >1) You will need Acrobat Reader loaded to see the paper by</FONT> <A HREF="http://www.urbanfischer.de/journals/jpp/content/issue4/2710131a.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.urbanfischer.de/journals/jpp/"><U>P.V. Monje and E.J. Baran</U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > on alpha quartz in the Cactaceae.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>D) Conferences.</I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Marco Madella organised the </FONT><A HREF="http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/phytolith" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/phytolith"><U>4th International Meeting on Phytolith Research</U></A>  <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >in Cambridge, UK, 2002. </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I>E) General information concerning Environmental Archaeology.</I><I> </I></div> <div> <A HREF="http://eagle.clarion.edu/~faculty/cwilliams/envarch1.html#Phytoliths" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://eagle.clarion.edu/~faculty/cwilli"><U>Environmental Archaeology on the Web</U></A> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Dr. Chuck Williams of Clarion University of Pennsylvania has a useful page on this topic. </FONT></div> <bR> <div> Back to</div> <div> <A HREF="phytohome.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Phytoliths plant silica bodies"><U>Phytoliths- plant silica bodies</U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>