July 2025
Dr Power (School of Archaeology / Earth Institute) gave a paper at the 14th International Meeting on Phytolith Research – July 14-19, 2025 in Barcelona, Spain.
Dr Power’s presentation is entitled “Tracing plant use in Late Holocene diets of Northern Japan: phytolith analysis from carbonized food crusts” (co-authored with Keelin Murphy (UCD), Jeffery Stone (Indiana State University), Yuichi Nakazawa, Masaru Kato, Katsunori Takase (Hokkaido University).
In addition, a Research Master’s student and co-author of the paper, Keelin Murphy is joining two archaeological fieldwork in Hokkaido with Hokkaido University from August to examine prehistoric settlement in Hokkaido until September.