Useful Phytolith Links

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 Contact Martin Hodson

SEE The Society for Phytolith Research for more links.

A) Databases and Bibliographies.

1) Terry Ball's Phytolith Page has lots of SEM images mostly from cereals.

2) The most detailed site so far available is the University of Missouri Phytolith Database

B) Research sites of phytolith workers

1) Mikhail Blinnikov's Phytolith Gallery has a good selection of light and scanning electron micrographs.

2) phytolith.net - the site from Marco Madella.

C) Published Articles on the Web.

1) You will need Acrobat Reader loaded to see the paper by P.V. Monje and E.J. Baran on alpha quartz in the Cactaceae.

D) Conferences.

Marco Madella organised the 4th International Meeting on Phytolith Research  in Cambridge, UK, 2002.

E) General information concerning Environmental Archaeology.

Environmental Archaeology on the Web Dr. Chuck Williams of Clarion University of Pennsylvania has a useful page on this topic.

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Phytoliths- plant silica bodies