Little is known of the human use of rainforest plant resources of prehistoric Sri Lanka due to the lack of preservation of organic material and the effects of various destructive taphonomic processes. Phytoliths recovered from ...

The domestication and time of arrival of bananas in South Asia and Africa are unresolved issues. We provide banana seed and leaf phytolith evidence from the archaeological sequence at Fahien Rock Shelter, south-west Sri ...

The paleoecological context of hominin occupation in South Asia during the early and middle Pleistocene is virtually unknown. Attirampakkam, India, is an archeological site of global importance, with an early Acheulian ...