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Revealing past land use practices, including the identification of specific agricultural crops.
The following abstracts relate to the use of microfossil (and other botanical) research in archaeology:
- Sediment, soil and plant microfossil analysis of Maori gardens at Anaura Bay, eastern North Island, New Zealand: comparison with descriptions made in 1769 by Captain Cook’s expedition
- Plant microfossils in prehistoric archaeological deposits from Yuku rock shelter, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
- Introduced taro (Colocasia esculenta) and yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Podtanean (2700-1800 yr BP) deposits from Mé Auré Cave (WMD007), Moindou, New Caledonia
- Field survey, sedimentology and plant microfossil analysis of sediment cores from possible cultivation sites at Tolaga Bay, eastern North Island, New Zealand
- Plant microfossil analysis reveals disturbed forest and a mixed-crop, dryland production system at Te Niu, Easter Island
- A short note on starch and xylem of Ipomoea batatas (sweet potato) in archaeological deposits from northern New Zealand
- Late Quaternary environments, vegetation and agriculture in northern New Zealand
- Evidence for introduced taro (Colocasia esculenta) and lesser yam (Dioscorea esculenta) in Lapita-era (c. 3050-2500 cal. yr BP) deposits from Bourewa, southwest Viti Levu Island, Fiji
- Starch residues in a sediment core and earth oven
- Starch residues in coprolites
- Plant microfossil analysis of soils from Polynesian stonefields in South Auckland, New Zealand
- Analysis of plant microfossils in archaeological deposits from two remote archipelagos: the Marshall Islands, eastern Micronesia, and the Pitcairn Group, southeast Polynesia
- A short note on starch and xylem of Colocasia esculenta (taro) in archaeological deposits from Pitcairn Island, southeast Polynesia
- The Hamurana Road site, U15/9, Rotorua
- A combined procedure for recovering phytoliths and starch residues from soils, sedimentary deposits and similar materials
- Microfossils of introduced cultigens from an early wetland ditch in New Zealand
- Microfossil analysis of Lapita deposits in Vanuatu reveals introduced Araceae (aroids)
- Polynesian plant subsistence in prehistoric New Zealand: a summary of the microfossil evidence
- Analysis of plant microfossils in early European latrine fills from Russell, northern New Zealand
- Starch grains and xylem cells of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and bracken (Pteridium esculentum) in archaeological deposits from northern North Island, New Zealand
- Microbotanical remains reveal Polynesian agriculture and mixed cropping in early New Zealand
- Evidence for diet, parasites, pollen, phytoliths, diatoms and starch grains in prehistoric coprolites from Kohika
- Analysis of sediments and plant remains from the find-spot of a cache of Polynesian gardening tools at Ruakaka, northern New Zealand
- Pollen, phytoliths and diatoms in prehistoric coprolites from Kohika, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
- Analysis of plant microfossils in prehistoric coprolites from Harataonga Bay, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand
- Wetland microfossils in soil: implications for the study of land use on archaeological landscapes
- Gourds, truffles and coprolites
- Pollen and phytoliths in stone mounds at Pouerua, Northland, New Zealand: implications for the study of Polynesian farming
