{"id":428,"date":"2010-01-01T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palethnologie.org\/?p=428"},"modified":"2015-02-11T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T16:43:00","slug":"2010-08-delhon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/2010-08-delhon\/","title":{"rendered":"2010-08\u2013DELHON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h1>Phytoliths and taphonomy<\/h1>\n<h2>the Contribution of Experimentation<br \/>\nto the Quantification of Phytoliths in Wood Ashes<\/h2>\n<h3>Claire DELHON<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/wp-content\/files\/2010\/en-GB\/Palethnology-2010-GB-08-Delhon.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-92\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/files\/2014\/04\/ico-pdf-021.gif\" alt=\"Icon pdf\" width=\"44\" height=\"51\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Download<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<p>Ashes, the mineral residues of wood combustion, contain siliceous particles that can be preserved for long periods in archaeological sediments. Phytoliths can thus be useful indicators of combustion activities whose biodegradable or soluble remains have disappeared.<br \/>\nIn this paper, an experimental evaluation of the potential of phytoliths for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of carbonized ligneous biomasses is presented. The results show: 1) that only a very small portion of ash is capable of resisting dissolution phenomena, 2) that phytoliths originating from ligneous tissues are only slightly characteristic from a taxonomic perspective, and 3) that it is not possible through a routine microscopic analysis to differentiate phytoliths derived from combustion and phytoliths liberated following a slow decomposition of organic material. It thus appears that strong concentrations of \u201cwood\u201d phytoliths can be an indicator of combustion, but that phytolithic analysis does not allow taxonomic identification of the ligneous combustible or evaluation of the quantity of biomass burned.<\/p>\n<h4>To cite this article<\/h4>\n<address><span style=\"color: #bd7e1b\">Delhon C.,\u00a02010 <\/span>\u2013\u00a0Phytoliths and Taphonomy, the Contribution of Experimentation to the Quantification of Phytoliths in Wood Ashes, in Th\u00e9ry-Parisot I., Chabal L., Costamagno S., <em>The taphonomy of Burned Organic Residues and Combustion Features in Archaeological Contexts<\/em>, Proceedings of the round table, May 27-29 2008, CEPAM, <em>P@lethnology<\/em>, 2, 93-104.<\/address>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phytoliths and taphonomy the Contribution of Experimentation to the Quantification of Phytoliths in Wood Ashes Claire DELHON \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Download Abstract Ashes, the mineral residues of wood combustion, contain siliceous particles that can be preserved for long periods in archaeological sediments. Phytoliths can thus be useful indicators of combustion activities whose biodegradable or soluble remains have disappeared. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/2010-08-delhon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2010-08\u2013DELHON<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40416],"tags":[40433,40437,40486,41574],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-2-articles","tag-aif","tag-analyse-phytolithique","tag-combustible-ligneux","tag-experimentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/palethnologie\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}