anthropologist archaeologist Botanist
She received her Doctor of Philosophy in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979, her dissertation being The Application of Ethnobotanical Techniques to the Problem of Subsistence in the Ecuadorian Formative.
She maintains an online Phytolith database. She is a full professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, where she where first began working in 1978. Pearsall, Pearsall, and Piperno, Dolores R. Pearsall, Pearsall, A. Pearsall, and Dolores R. M. M. A. M. M. P. Pearsall, (ed) 2008 Encyclopedia or Archaeology.
