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  • Earliest Musa banana from the late Quaternary sequence at Fahien Rock Shelter in Sri Lanka 
    Premathilake, R.; Hunt, C.O. (JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE, 2018)
    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 ...
  • Late Pleistocene humans in Sri Lanka used plant resources: A phytolith record from Fahien rock shelter 
    Premathilake, R.; Hunt, C.O. (Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2018)
    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 ...
  • Sri Lanka’s Earliest Wild Musa Bananas? 
    Premathilake, R.; Hunt, C.O. (Global Journal of Archaeological & Anthropology, 2018)
    In spite of their importance as a crop today, records of the use of wild banana and the antecedents of the modern domesticated bananas are relatively obscure. Banana dispersal pattern from their native range (e.g. Island ...

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