Deborah M. Pearsall

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Deborah M. Pearsall

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According to Wikipedia, Deborah M. Pearsall is an American archaeologist who specializes in paleoethnobotany. She maintains an online phytolith database. She is a full professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, where she first began working in 1978. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979, with a dissertation titled The Application of Ethnobotanical Techniques to the Problem of Subsistence in the Ecuadorian Formative.

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Deborah M. Pearsall's Published Works

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Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures (1989) (854)
The Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland Neotropics (1998) (548)
Starch Fossils and the Domestication and Dispersal of Chili Peppers (Capsicum spp. L.) in the Americas (2007) (346)
The silica bodies of tropical American grasses : morphology, taxonomy, and implications for grass systematics and fossil phytolith identification (1998) (241)
The origins of agriculture : an international perspective (1993) (227)
Maize in ancient Ecuador: results of residue analysis of stone tools from the Real Alto site (2004) (211)
Plant Domestication and the Shift to Agriculture in the Andes (2008) (158)
Directly dated starch residues document early formative maize (Zea mays L.) in tropical Ecuador (2008) (133)
Root and tuber phytoliths and starch grains document manioc (Manihot esculenta) arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea) and llerén (Calathea sp.) at the real alto site Ecuador (2006) (126)
Phytolith Analysis of Archeological Soils: Evidence for Maize Cultivation in Formative Ecuador (1978) (125)
Distinguishing rice (Oryza sativa Poaceae) from wild Oryza species through Phytolith analysis: Results of preliminary research (1995) (117)
Distinguishing rice (Oryza sativa poaceae) from wildOryza species through phytolith analysis, II Finalized method (1998) (114)
Identifying maize in neotropical sediments and soilsusing cob phytoliths (2003) (102)
Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world (2016) (102)
Antiquity of Maize Cultivation in Ecuador: Summary and Reevaluation of the Evidence (1990) (100)
Current research in phytolith analysis : applications in archaeology and paleoecology (1993) (93)
Phytolith Analysis: An Archaeological and Geological Perspective (1989) (91)
Encyclopedia of archaeology (2008) (88)
Phytolith morphology research on wild and domesticated rice species in East Asia (2013) (82)
Phytoliths in the Reproductive Structures of Maize and Teosinte: Implications for the Study of Maize Evolution (1993) (80)
Climate change and population history in the pacific lowlands of Southern Mesoamerica (2006) (69)
Early Maya Adaptive Patterns: Mid-Late Holocene Paleoenvironmental Evidence from Pacific Guatemala (2006) (67)
Subsistence Economy of El Para�so, an Early Peruvian Site (1991) (65)
“Let’s Drink Together”: Early Ceremonial use of Maize in the Titicaca Basin (2012) (59)
Vegetation and fire history of a Chinese site in southern tropical Xishuangbanna derived from phytolith and charcoal records from Holocene sediments (2007) (58)
Gourd and squash artifacts yield starch grains of feasting foods from preceramic Peru (2009) (57)
Identifying past agricultural activity through soil phytolith analysis: a case study from the Hawaiian islands (1984) (53)
Experiments for Improving Phytolith Extraction from Soils (1998) (51)
Paleoenvironmental evidence for first human colonization of the eastern Caribbean (2015) (49)
The Origins of Agriculture (1970) (49)
Archaic period settlement and subsistence in the Maya lowlands: new starch grain and lithic data from Freshwater Creek, Belize (2014) (45)
Phytolith Analysis: Applications of a New Paleoethnobotanical Technique in Archeology (1982) (45)
Plants, People, and Culture in the Prehistoric Central Bahamas: A View from the Three Dog Site, an Early Lucayan Settlement on San Salvador Island, Bahamas (2000) (43)
At the Crossroads: Starch Grain and Phytolith Analyses in Lucayan Prehistory (2008) (40)
The application of ethnobotanical techniques to the problem of subsistence in the Ecuadorian Formative (1979) (40)
Adaptation of prehistoric hunter-gatherers to the high Andes: the changing role of plant resources. (1989) (39)
Climate, agriculture, and cycles of human occupation over the last 4000 yr in southern Zacatecas, Mexico (2010) (38)
Maize is Still Ancient in Prehistoric Ecuador: The View from Real Alto, with Comments on Staller and Thompson (2002) (38)
Investigating the Transition to Agriculture (2009) (35)
Archaeological Investigations of the Mudlane-Waimea-Kawaihae Road Corridor, Island of Hawaii: An Interdisciplinary Study of an Environmental Transect. (1983) (34)
Plant use activities during the Upper Paleolithic in East Eurasia: Evidence from the Shuidonggou Site, Northwest China (2014) (33)
Climate, Plant Ecology, and Central Mexican Archaic Subsistence1 (1998) (28)
Beans for valdivia. (1981) (27)
The nature and status of phytolith analysis (1993) (26)
Developing a Phytolith Classification System (1992) (25)
Maize can still be identified using phytoliths: response to Rovner (2004) (23)
Archaeology in the lowland American tropics: “Doing” paleoethnobotany in the tropical lowlands: adaptation and innovation in methodology (1995) (22)
Early cotton from coastal Ecuador (1994) (20)
EVALUATING THE STABILITY OF SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES BY USE OF PALEOETHNOBOTANICAL OATA (2009) (14)
Plants and People in Ancient Ecuador: The Ethnobotany of the Jama River Valley (2003) (14)
Case Studies in Paleoethnobotany (2018) (13)
A Handbook of Procedures (1989) (13)
The application of phytolith and starch grain analysis to understanding formative period subsistence, ritual, and trade on the Taraco Pennisula, Highland Bolivia (2006) (13)
The Symbolic Uses of Plants (2011) (12)
Early Prehistoric Maize in Northern Highland Ecuador (2016) (12)
Late pre-Columbian agroforestry in the tropical lowlands of western Ecuador (2012) (10)
The Phytoliths in the Flora of Ecuador project: Perspectives on phytolith classification, identification, and establishing regional phytolith databases (2016) (10)
Crop Dispersal and Lucayan Tool Use: Investigating the Creation of Transported Landscapes in the Central Bahamas through Starch Grain, Phytolith, Macrobotanical, and Artifact Studies (2020) (9)
Analysis of charred botanical remains from the Tutu site (2002) (9)
Reconstructing Past Life‐Ways with Plants II: Human–Environment and Human–Human Interactions (2011) (8)
Application of phytolith analysis to reconstruction of past environments and subsistence: recent research in the Pacific (1990) (8)
Regional Archaeology in Northern Manabf, Ecuador. (1996) (8)
El Bálsamo Residential Investigations: A Pilot Project and Research Issues (1985) (7)
Reconstructing Subsistence in the Lowland Tropics A Case Study from the Jama River Valley Manabí Ecuador (2008) (6)
Phytolith Morphology (1999) (6)
Analysis of an archaeological maize kernel cache from Manabi Province, Ecuador (1980) (6)
Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures@@@Current Paleoethnobotany: Analytical Methods and Cultural Interpretations of Archaeological Plant Remains@@@Phytolith Analysis: An Archaeological and Geological Perspective (1990) (5)
Chapter 5 – Phytolith Analysis (1989) (5)
Archaological age determinations derived from opal phytoliths by thermoluminescence (1993) (4)
Human–environment interactions during the early mid-Holocene in coastal Ecuador as revealed by mangrove coring in Santa Elena Province (2016) (4)
Humanizing the landscapes of the Lesser Antilles during the Archaic Age (2018) (4)
From Small-Scale Horticulture to the Formative Period (1998) (4)
Contributions of phytolith analysis for reconstructing subsistence: examples from research in Ecuador (1993) (4)
Background of Tropical Agricultural Origins (1998) (3)
Food and Society at Real Alto, an Early Formative Community in Southwest Coastal Ecuador (2020) (2)
From Foraging to Planting (2006) (2)
Early agriculture in the Americas (2015) (2)
Monte Verde: A Late Pleistocene Settlement In Chile. Volume I: Palaeoenvlronment and Site Context:Monte Verde: A Late Pleistocene Settlement In Chile. Volume I: Palaeoenvlronment and Site Context. (1990) (2)
The Evolution of Foraging and Food Production (1998) (2)
People, Plants, and Culinary Traditions (2012) (2)
Chapter 1 – The Paleoethnobotanical Approach (1989) (1)
Chapter 3 – Identification and Interpretation of Macroremains (1989) (1)
Phytolith and Starch Grain Analysis of Dental Calculus from the Tiwanaku Valley (2006) (1)
Ancient Starch Research. Robin Torrence , Huw Barton (2007) (1)
Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion. John M. Marston. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, 224 pp. $59.95, cloth. ISBN 978-1-934536-91-9. (2019) (1)
Paleoethnobotany of the Osage and Missouri Indians: Analysis of Plant Remains From Historic Village Sites (1986) (1)
The Neotropical Ecosystem in the Present and the Past (1998) (1)
Methods for addressing Island historical ecology (2018) (1)
The Origins and Spread of Early Agriculture andDomestication: Environmental and Cultural Considerations (2012) (1)
The Phytogeography of Neotropical Crops and Their Putative Wild Ancestors (1998) (0)
Approaches to Paleoethnobotanical Interpretation (2018) (0)
Holocene book review: Palaeoethnobotany of Princess Point, Lower Great Lakes region, southern Ontario, Canada (2009) (0)
Prehistoric Settlement and Adaptation in the Ramah Valley, New Mexico (1973) (0)
Assessing colonization, landscape learning, and socionatural changes in the Caribbean (2018) (0)
The Nature and Status of Paleoethnobotany: Methods and Approaches for Understanding Site Formation Processes (2015) (0)
Deposition and Preservation of Paleoethnobotanical Remains (2018) (0)
Chapter 6 – Integrating Paleoethnobotanical Data (1989) (0)
DISTINGUISHING RICE ( ORYZA SATIVA POACEAE ) FROM ORYZA SPECIES THROUGH PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS , Ih FINALIZED METHOD 1 WILD (0)
Chapter 4 – Archaeological Palynology (1989) (0)
Generating reliable reconstructions of human colonization patterns from intact archaeological (2015) (0)
Causes and Consequences of Colonization in the Caribbean: What Is Known and What Is Unknowable (2017) (0)
Caribbean Landscapes in the Age of the Anthropocene: The First Colonizers (2016) (0)
Lucayan Paleoethnobotany: Dynamism and Stability in the Bahama Archipelago (2018) (0)
EARLY COTTON FROM COASTAL ECUADOR 1 JONATHAN E. DAMP AND DEBORAH M. PEARSALL (1994) (0)
Real Alto Supplementary Table 5: Charnal House Mound microfossil data (2019) (0)
Regional studies ? modern DNA and archaeology (2008) (0)
Deposition, Preservation, and Recovery of Macroremains (2016) (0)
Procedures for Initializing Veterans Administration Filemanager and Kernel (1988) (0)
Palconutrition. The Diet and Health of Prehistoric Americans. Kristin D. Sobolik, ed (1995) (0)
Real Alto Supplementary Figure 4: Structure 20 images sediments (2019) (0)
Paleoethnobotanical Remains (2018) (0)
The Relationship of Neotropical Food Production to Food Production from Other Areas of the World (1998) (0)
Real Alto Supplementary Table 6: Dental Calculus microfossil data (2019) (0)
Christine Hastorf A.. Agriculture and the onset of political inequality before the Inka. xvi+298 pages, 31 figures, 31 tables. 1993. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-40272-7 hardback £45 & $69.95. (1993) (0)
Phytoarchaeology. Robert R. Brooks and Dieter Johannes. (1992) (0)
The Paleoethnobotany of Maize (2018) (0)
Real Alto Supplementary Figure 6: Dental Calculus images (2019) (0)
The impact of maize on subsistence systems in South America (2020) (0)
Caribbean landscapes during the late-precolonial and early-colonial periods (2016) (0)
List of Figures ix List of Tables xvii Preface xix (2015) (0)
Real Alto Supplementary Figure 2: Structure 10 images (2019) (0)
Commentary: Paleoethnobotany Beyond Diet, Environment, and Ecology (2017) (0)
Chapter 2 – Techniques for Recovering Macroremains (1989) (0)
Earl Henry Lubensky (March 31, 1921 - May 1, 2009) (2012) (0)
Seeds of Central America and Southern Mexico. The Economic Species (2006) (0)
Paleoethnobotany as Ethnobotany as Paleoethnobotany (2023) (0)
Peer Reviewers (2019) (0)
Real Alto Supplementary Table 7: Pearsall 1979 phytolith data (2019) (0)
Investigating Neanderthal Lifeways Through Paleoethnobotany (2018) (0)
Stahl, Peter W. (2020) (0)
Archaeobotany and Insights Into Social Relationships at Cahokia (2018) (0)
Field Sampling and Recovery (2018) (0)
Plants and Healing/Health (2018) (0)
An Individual’s Relationship to the Natural World (2018) (0)
Real Alto Supplementary Figure 5: Charnal House Mound images (2019) (0)
Integrating Biological Data (2016) (0)
Real Alto Supplementary Table 3: Structure 10 microfossil data (2019) (0)
Real Alto Supplementary Table 1: Pearsall 1979 wood data (2019) (0)

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