FITOLITOS Y OTROS MICROFÓSILES EN LA PREHISTORIA DE CANARIAS, UNA
José Ángel Afonso Vargas2009, Actas VII Congreso de Arqueometría de Teruel
The joint study of microfossils of plant origin and phytoliths (silica and calcium oxalate) and siliceous algae (diatoms and crisophicean quists) as well as other animal, such as spherulites from herbivore faunal, to retrieve existing information on the microscopic level, in samples of archaeological material relating to the prehistory of the Canary Islands, inserting the data on issues such as exploitation of the plant, food, environmental conditions in human settlements and even the presence of herbivorous animals in them. It has been used a method of treating joint that allows the extraction of all these types of microfossils, based on other previous treatment methods and guarantees the qualitative and quantitative study ofmicrofossils detected sets. The versatility of themethod, the large number of evidences that can be recovered and the evaluation of it from the study of plants and
