Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures

About Deborah M Pearsall

Deborah M. Pearsall Professor Emerita University of Missouri USA Department of Anthropology. Recently retired from MU after 35 years Debby Pearsall holds a BA from the University of Michigan and MA and PhD from the University of Illinois all degrees in anthropology. Her interests within this discipline center on South American archaeology and paleoethnobotany--the study of people-plant interrelationships through the archaeological record. She has conducted paleoethnobotanical research in numerous locations in the Americas. Her research has two broad themes: the origins and spread of agriculture in the lowland Neotropics and methods and approaches in paleoethnobotany. She is the author of three books Paleoethnobotany. A Handbook of Procedures ; Plants and People in Ancient Ecuador: The Ethnobotany of the Jama River Valley; and Piperno and Pearsall The Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland Neotropics and was the general editor of Academic Press's 2008 Encyclopedia of Archaeology . She has published in numerous professional journals and edited books.