Piperno, Dolores
Senior Scientist Emerita
Piperno, Dolores
Senior Scientist Emerita
My research interests have primarily involved the archaeobotany, archaeology, and human ecology of the lowland American tropics together with the biogeographical and climatological history of the tropical biome. A main focus of my career is the origins of agriculture through investigations of phytoliths, starch grains and pollen at archaeological sites in the Neotropics and elsewhere in the world. Another main focus is the impact and modern legacies of prehistoric human influences on Neotropical forests.
Positions
- Senior Scientist Emerita, NMNH - Dept. of Anthropology , National Museum of Natural History 2003 -
Geographic Focus
- Neotropics Geographic Region
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.A., Rutgers University
- M.A., Temple University
- Ph.D., Temple University
Awards And Honors
- President's Distinguished Lecturer, conferred by University of Vermont , 2019
- Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2018
- Pomerance Career Award , conferred by Archaeological Institute of America, 2009
- Orden de Vasco Nunez de Balboa, conferred by Republic of Panama, 2006
- Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, conferred by National Academy of Sciences, 2005
- Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, conferred by American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005
Research And Grants
Co-principal Investigator On
Investigator On
- Phenotypes, Environmental Plasticity, and Gene Expression in Teosinte and Maize in Ancient Climates Before and During the Time of Domestication awarded by Competitive Grants Program for Science
- missing activity 2018 -
- Collaborative Research: Fire History and Pre-Columbian Impacts on Amazonian Ecosystems awarded by Florida Institute of Technology
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Piperno, Dolores R., McMichael, Crystal N. H., Pitman, Nigel C. A., Paredes, Marcos Ríos, Torres-Montenegro, Luis, and Bush, Mark B. 2024. "Pre-Columbian vegetational and fire history in western Amazonia: Terrestrial soil phytolith and charcoal evidence from three regions." Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.01.011. 2024
- Witteveen, Nina H., White, Cheryl, Sánchez‐Martínez, Barbara A., Philip, Annemarie, Boyd, Femke, Booij, Roemer, Christ, Reyan, Singh, Santosh, Gosling, William D., Piperno, Dolores R., and McMichael, Crystal N. H. 2024. "Pre‐contact and post‐colonial ecological legacies shape Surinamese rainforests." Ecology, 105, (5). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4272. 2024
- Vargas-Machuca, B., Piperno, Dolores R., Böhnert, Tim, Stoll, Alexandra, Maldonado, Antonio, Arancio, Gina, Wennrich, Volker, and Melles, Martin. 2024. "Regional phytoliths from the Coastal Cordillera of the Atacama Desert, Chile, and their potential for paleoecological reconstructions." Quaternary International, 681 33–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.01.005. 2024
- Piperno, Dolores R. and McMichael, Crystal. 2023. "Phytoliths in modern plants from Amazonia and the Neotropics at large: II. Enhancement of eudicotyledon reference collections." Quaternary International, 655 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.01.010. 2023
- McMichael, C. N. H., Levis, C., Gosling, W. D., Junqueira, A. B., Piperno, Dolores R., Neves, E. G., Mayle, F., Peña-Claros, M., and Bongers, F. 2023. "Spatial and temporal abilities of proxies used to detect pre-Columbian Indigenous human activity in Amazonian ecosystems." Quaternary Science Reviews, 321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108354. 2023
- Kunz, Matthias, Barrios, Hector, Dan, Michelle, Dogirama, Iran, Gennaretti, Fabio, Guillemette, Mathieu, Koller, Alexandra, Madsen, Chris, Lana, Gilberto, Ortega, Alexis, Ortega, Manuel, Paripari, Jose, Piperno, Dolores, Reich, Karl Friedrich, Simon, Thomas, Solis, Francisco, Solis, Porfirio, Valdes, Jorge, von Oheimb, Goddert, and Potvin, Catherine. 2022. "Bacurú Drõa: Indigenous forest custody as an effective climate change mitigation option. A case study from Darién, Panama." Frontiers in Climate, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.1047832. 2022
- McMichael, Crystal N. H., Vink, Veerle, Heijink, Britte M., Witteveen, Nina H., Piperno, Dolores R., Gosling, William D., and Bush, Mark B. 2022. "Ecological legacies of past fire and human activity in a Panamanian forest." PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10344. 2022
- Heijink, Britte M., Mattijs, Quinten A., Valencia, Renato, Philip, Annemarie L., Piperno, Dolores R., and McMichael, Crystal N. H. 2022. "Long-term fire and vegetation change in northwestern Amazonia." Biotropica, https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13175. 2022
- Witteveen, N. H., Hobus, C. E. M., Philip, A., Piperno, Dolores R., and McMichael, C. N. H. 2022. "The variability of Amazonian palm phytoliths." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104613. 2022
- Piperno, Dolores R., McMichael, Crystal H., Pitman, Nigel C. A., Guevara Andino, Juan Ernesto, Ríos Paredes, Marcos, Heijink, Britte M., and Torres-Montenegro, Luis A. 2021. "A 5,000-year vegetation and fire history for tierra firme forests in the Medio Putumayo-Algodón watersheds, northeastern Peru." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, (40). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022213118. 2021
- Roberts, Patrick, Hamilton, Rebecca, and Piperno, Dolores R. 2021. "Tropical forests as key sites of the "Anthropocene": Past and present perspectives." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, (40). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109243118. 2021
- Heijink, Britte M., McMichael, Crystal N. H., Piperno, Dolores R., Duivenvoorden, Joost F., Cárdenas, Dairon, and Duque, Álvaro. 2020. "Holocene increases in palm abundances in north-western Amazonia." Journal of Biogeography, 47, (3) 698–711. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13721. 2020
- Piperno, Dolores R. and McMichael, Crystal N. H. 2020. "Phytoliths in modern plants from amazonia and the neotropics at large: Implications for vegetation history reconstruction." Quaternary International, 565 54–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.10.043. 2020
- Piperno, Dolores R., Holst, Irene, Moreno, Jorge Enrique, and Winter, Klaus. 2019. "Experimenting with domestication: Understanding macro- and micro-phenotypes and developmental plasticity in teosinte in its ancestral pleistocene and early holocene environments." Journal of Archaeological Science, 108 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.05.006. 2019
- Piperno, Dolores R., McMichael, Crystal N. H., and Bush, Mark B. 2019. "Finding forest management in prehistoric Amazonia." Anthropocene, 26 100211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2019.100211. 2019
- Piperno, Dolores R. 2018. "A model of agricultural origins." Nature Human Behaviour, 2, (7) 446–447. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0390-8. 2018
- Piperno, Dolores R. 2017. "Assessing elements of an extended evolutionary synthesis for plant domestication and agricultural origin research." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114, (25) 6429–6437. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1703658114. 2017
- McMichael, Crystal H., Feeley, Kenneth J., Dick, Christopher W., Piperno, Dolores R., and Bush, Mark B. 2017. "Comment on “Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition”." Science, 358, (6361). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan8347. 2017
- Piperno, Dolores R., McMichael, Crystal H., and Bush, Mark B. 2017. "Further evidence for localized, short-term anthropogenic forest alterations across pre-Columbian Amazonia." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114, (21) E4118–E4119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705585114. 2017
- Piperno, Dolores R., Ranere, Anthony J., Dickau, Ruth, and Aceituno, Francisco. 2017. "Niche construction and optimal foraging theory in Neotropical agricultural origins: A re-evaluation in consideration of the empirical evidence." Journal of Archaeological Science, 78 214–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2017.01.001. 2017
- Dillehay, Tom D., Goodbred, Steve, Pino, Mario, Vásquez Sánchez, Víctor F., Tham, Teresa Rosales, Adovasio, James, Collins, Michael B., Netherly, Patricia J., Hastorf, Christine A., Chiou, Katherine L., Piperno, Dolores R., Rey, Isabel, and Velchoff, Nancy. 2017. "Simple technologies and diverse food strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, Coastal Peru." Science Advances, 3, (5). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602778. 2017
- Lorant, Anne, Perdersen, Sarah, Holst, Irene, Hufford, Matthew B., Winter, Klaus, Piperno, Dolores R., and Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey. 2017. "The Potential Role of Genetic Assimilation during Maize Domestication." PLoS One, 12, (9) e0184202. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184202. 2017
- Piperno, Dolores R. 2016. "Phytolith Radiocarbon Dating in Archaeological and Paleoecological Research:A Case Study of Phytoliths from Modern Neotropical Plants and a Review of the Previous Dating Evidence." Journal of Archaeological Science, 68 54–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.06.002. 2016
- Ball, Terry, Chandler-Ezell, Karol, Duncan, Neil, Dickau, Ruth, Hart, Thomas C., Iriarte, Jose, Lentfer, Carol, Logan, Amanda, Lu, Houyuan, Madella, Marco, Pearsall, Deborah M., Piperno, Dolores R., Rosen, Arlene M., Vrydaghs, Luc, Weisskopf, Alison, and Zhang, Jianping. 2016. "Phytoliths As a Tool for Investigations of Agricultural Origins and Dispersals Around the World." Journal of Archaeological Science, 68 32–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.08.010. 2016
- Piperno, Dolores R. 2016. "Standard evaluations of bomb curves and age calibrations along with consideration of environmental and biological variability show the rigor of phytolith dates on modern neotropical plants: Review of comment by Santos, Alexandre, and Prior." Journal of Archaeological Science, 71 59–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.01.013. 2016
- Piperno, Dolores R., McMichael, Crystal H., and Bush, Mark B. 2015. "Amazonia and the Anthropocene: What was the spatial extent and intensity of human landscape modification in the Amazon Basin at the end of prehistory?" The Holocene, 25, (10) 1588–1597. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615588374. 2015
- Bush, Mark B., McMichael, Crystal H., Piperno, Dolores R., Silman, Miles R., Barlow, Jos, Peres, Carlos A., Power, Mitchell, and Palace, Michael W. 2015. "Anthropogenic influence on Amazonian forests in pre-history: An ecological perspective." Journal of Biogeography, 42, (12) 2277–2288. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12638. 2015
- McMichael, Crystal H., Piperno, Dolores R., and Bush, M. B. 2015. "Comment on Clement et al. 2015 'The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest'." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, (1821). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1837. 2015
- McMichael, Crystal H., Piperno, Dolores R., Neves, Eduardo G., Bush, Mark B., Almeida, Fernando O., Mongeló, Guilherme, and Eyjolfsdottir, Margret B. 2015. "Phytolith Assemblages Along a Gradient of Ancient Human Disturbance in Western Amazonia." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 3 141. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2015.00141. 2015
- Martín, Juan G., Mendizábal, Tomás, Schreg, Rainer, Cooke, Richard G., and Piperno, Dolores R. 2015. "Pre-Columbian raised fields in Panama: First evidence." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 3 558–564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.08.018. 2015
- Piperno, Dolores R., Holst, Irene, Winter, Klaus, and McMillan, William Owen. 2015. "Teosinte before domestication: Experimental study of growth and phenotypic variability in Late Pleistocene and early Holocene environments." Quaternary International, 363 65–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.049. 2015
- Larson, Greger, Piperno, Dolores R., Allaby, Robin G., Purugganan, Michael D., Andersson, Leif, Arroyo-Kalin, Manuel, Barton, Loukas, Vigueira, Cynthia Climer, Denham, Tim, Dobney, Keith, Doust, Andrew N., Gepts, Paul, Gilbert, M. Thomas P., Gremillion, Kristen J., Lucas, Leilani, Lukens, Lewis, Marshall, Fiona B., Olsen, Kenneth M., Pires, J. C., Richerson, Peter J., de Casas, Rafael Rubio, Sanjur, Oris I., Thomas, Mark G., and Fuller, Dorian Q. 2014. "Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, (17) 6139–6146. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1323964111. 2014
- Grayson, D. K., Meltzer, D. J., Buikstra, J. E., Flannery, K. V., Fowler, C. S., Marcus, J., O'Connell, J. F., Piperno, Dolores R., Sabloff, J. A., Smith, Bruce D., Thomas, D. H., Willerslev, E., and Zeder, Melinda A. 2014. "Early Americans: Respecting ancestors." Science, 345, (6195) 390–390. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.345.6195.390-b. 2014
- Martin, Juan G., Mendizabal, Tomas, Schreg, Rainer, Piperno, Dolores R., and Cooke, Richard G. 2014. "First evidence for pre-Columbian raised fields in Central America." Antiquity, 89, (343). 2014
- Gremillion, Kristen J., Barton, Loukas, and Piperno, Dolores R. 2014. "Particularism and the retreat from theory in the archaeology of agricultural origins." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, (17) 6171–6177. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1308938110. 2014
- Henry, Amanda G., Brooks, Alison S., and Piperno, Dolores R. 2014. "Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans." Journal of human evolution, 69 44–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.12.014. 2014
- Gremillion, Kristen J., Barton, Loukas, and Piperno, Dolores R. 2014. "Reply to Smith: On distinguishing between models, hypotheses, and theoretical frameworks." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, (28). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1408909111. 2014
- Gremillion, Kristen J., Barton, Loukas, and Piperno, Dolores R. 2014. "Reply to Zeder: Maintaining a diverse scientific toolkit is not an act of faith." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, (28). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1409072111. 2014
- McMichael, Crystal H., Bush, Mark B., Silman, Miles R., Piperno, Dolores R., Raczka, Marco, Lobato, Luiz C., Zimmerman, Monica, Hagen, Stephen, and Palace, Michael. 2013. "Historical fire and bamboo dynamics in western Amazonia." Journal of Biogeography, 40, (2) 299–309. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12002. 2013
- Lachniet, Matthew S., Bernal, Juan Pablo, Asmerom, Yemane, Polyak, Victor, and Piperno, Dolores R. 2012. "A 2400 yr Mesoamerican rainfall reconstruction links climate and cultural change." Geology, 40, (3) 259–262. https://doi.org/10.1130/G32471.1. 2012
- Sheets, Payson, Lentz, David, Piperno, Dolores R., Jones, John, Dixon, Christine, Maloof, George, and Hood, Angela. 2012. "Ancient Manioc Agriculture South of the Ceren Village, El Salvador." Latin American Antiquity, 23, (3) 259–281. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.23.3.259. 2012
- Dillehay, T. D., Bonavia, D., Goodbred, S., Pino, M., Vasquez, V., Tham, T. R., Conklin, W., Splitstoser, J., Piperno, Dolores R., Iriarte, J., Grobman, A., Levi-Lazzaris, G., Moreira, D., Lopez, M., Tung, T., Titelbaum, A., Verano, J., Adovasio, James M., Cummings, L. S., Bearez, P., Dufour, E., Tombret, O., Ramirez, M., Beavins, R., DeSantis, L. et al. 2012. "Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago." Antiquity, 86, (331) 48–70. 2012
- Nadel, Dani, Piperno, Dolores R., Holst, Irene, Snir, Ainit, and Weiss, Ehud. 2012. "New evidence for the processing of wild cereal grains at Ohalo II, a 23 000-year-old campsite on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel." Antiquity, 86, (334) 990–1003. 2012
- Grobman, Alexander, Bonavia, Duccio, Dillehay, Tom D., Piperno, Dolores R., Iriarte, José, and Holst, Irene. 2012. "Preceramic maize from Paredones and Huaca Prieta, Peru." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109, (5) 1755–1759. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120270109. 2012
- McMichael, Crystal H., Piperno, Dolores R., Bush, M. B., Silman, M. R., Zimmerman, A. R., Raczka, M. F., and Lobato, L. C. 2012. "Sparse Pre-Columbian Human Habitation in Western Amazonia." Science, 336, (6087) 1429–1431. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1219982. 2012
- McMichael, Crystal H., Bush, Mark B., Piperno, Dolores R., Silman, Miles R., Zimmerman, Andrew R., and Anderson, Christina. 2012. "Spatial and temporal scales of pre-Columbian disturbance associated with western Amazonian lakes." The Holocene, 22, (2) 131–141. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683611414932. 2012
- Henry, Amanda G., Brooks, Alison S., and Piperno, Dolores R. 2011. "Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium)." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, (2) 486–491. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1016868108. 2011
- Henry, Amanda G., Brooks, Alison S., and Piperno, Dolores R. 2011. "Reply to Collins and Copeland: Spontaneous gelatinization not supported by evidence." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, (22) E146–E146. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1104199108. 2011
- Piperno, Dolores R. 2011. "The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the New World Tropics." Current Anthropology, 52, (S4) S453–S470. https://doi.org/10.1086/659998. 2011
- Kennett, Douglas J., Piperno, Dolores R., Jones, John G., Neff, Hector, Voorhies, Barbara, Walsh, Megan K., and Culleton, Brendan J. 2010. "Pre-Pottery Farmers on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico." Journal of Archaeological Science, 37, (12) 3401–3411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.07.035. 2010
- Henry, Amanda G., Hudson, Holly F., and Piperno, Dolores R. 2009. "Changes in starch grain morphologies from cooking." Journal of Archaeological Science, 36, (3) 915–922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008.11.008. 2009
- Gremillion, Kristin and Piperno, Dolores R. 2009. "Human behavioral ecology, phenotypic plasticity, and agricultural origins: Insights from the emerging evolutionary synthesis." Current Anthropology, 50 615–619. 2009
- Piperno, Dolores R. 2009. "Identifying crop plants with phytoliths (and starch grains) in Central and South America: A review and an update of the evidence." Quaternary International, 193 146–159. 2009
- Ranere, Anthony J. and Piperno, Dolores R. 2009. "Reply to Perttula: Identifying an early Holocene projectile point type from central Mexico." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, (27) E74–E74. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905971106. 2009
- Piperno, Dolores R., Ranere, Anthony J., Holst, Irene, Iriarte, Jose, and Dickau, Ruth. 2009. "Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, (13) 5019–5024. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812525106. 2009
- Ranere, Anthony J., Piperno, Dolores R., Holst, Irene, Dickau, Ruth, and Iriarte, José. 2009. "The cultural and chronological context of early Holocene maize and squash domestication in the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, (13) 5014–5018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812590106. 2009
- Piperno, Dolores R. and Dillehay, Tom D. 2008. "Starch grains on human teeth reveal early broad crop diet in northern Peru." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105, (50) 19622–19627. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0808752105. 2008
- Henry, Amanda G. and Piperno, Dolores R. 2008. "Using plant microfossils from dental calculus to recover human diet: a case study from Tell al-Raqa'i, Syria." Journal of Archaeological Science, 35, (7) 1943–1950. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2007.12.005. 2008
- Holst, Irene, Moreno, Enrique, and Piperno, Dolores R. 2007. "Identification of teosinte, maize, and Tripsacum in Mesoamerica by using pollen, starch grains, and phytoliths." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104, (45) 17608–17613. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708736104. 2007
- Piperno, Dolores R., Moreno, Jorge Enrique, Iriarte, Jose, Holst, Irene, Lachniet, Matthew S., Jones, John G., Ranere, Anthony J., and Castanzo, R. 2007. "Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental history of the Iguala Valley, Central Balsas Watershed of Mexico." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104, (29) 11874–11881. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0703442104. 2007
- Pohl, Mary E. D., Piperno, Dolores R., Pope, Kevin O., and Jones, John G. 2007. "Microfossil evidence for pre-Columbian maize dispersals in the neotropics from San Andrés, Tabasco, Mexico." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104, (16) 6870–6875. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0701425104. 2007
- Perry, Linda, Dickau, Ruth, Zarrillo, Sonia, Holst, Irene, Pearsall, Deborah M., Piperno, Dolores R., Berman, Mary Jane, Cooke, Richard G., Rademaker, Kurt, Ranere, Anthony J., Raymond, J. Scott, Sandweiss, Daniel H., Scaramelli, Franz, Tarble, Kay, and Zeidler, James A. 2007. "Starch fossils and the domestication and dispersal of chili peppers (Capsicum spp. L.) in the Americas." Science, 315, (5814) 986–988. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1136914. 2007
- Piperno, Dolores R. 2007. "identifying crop plants with phytoliths (and starch grains) in central and south america: a review and an update of the evidence." Quaternary International, doi:10.1016 1–52. 2007
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Chapter
- Piperno, Dolores R. 2020. "Plant Cultivation and Domestication at the Vegas Sites: New Evidence from Starch Grain Studies of Human Teeth." In Las Vegas: the Early Holocene Archaeology of Human Occupation in Coastal Ecuador. Stahl, P. W. and Stothert, K. E., editors. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh. In Latin American Archaeology, 25. 2020
- Piperno, Dolores R., Messner, T., and Holst, I. 2017. "Starch Grains." In In Where the Land Meets the Sea: Fourteen Millennia of Human Behavior at Huaca Prieta, Peru. Dillehay, T. D., editor. 683–688. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2017
- Dillehay, T. D. and Piperno, Dolores R. 2013. "Domestication and the Formative in South America." In The Cambridge world prehistory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013
- Piperno, Dolores R. 2012. "New Archaeobotanical Information on Early Cultivation and Plant domestication Involving Microplant Remains." In Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution, & Sustainability. Gepts, P., Famula, T. R., Bettinger, R. L., Brush, S. B., Damania, A. B., McGuire, P. E., and Qualset, C. O., editors. 136–159. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2012
- Piperno, Dolores R. and Smith, Bruce D. 2012. "The Origins of Food Production in Mesoamerica." In The Handbook of Mesoamerican Archaeology. Nichols, D. L. and Poole, C., editors. 151–168. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012
- Piperno, Dolores R. 2011. "Northern Peruvian Early and Middle Preceramic Agriculture in Central and South American Context." In Early Foragers and Food Producers in the Andes. Dillehey, T. D., editor. 275–284. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2011
- Piperno, Dolores R. 2011. "Prehistoric Human Occupation and Impacts on Tropical Forest Landscapes During the Late Pleistocene and Early/Middle Holocene." In Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climate and Human Influences. Flenley, J. and Bush, M. B., editors. 185–212. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2011
- Piperno, Dolores R. 2007. "Fitolitos y carbón microscópico del trayecto 155: historia de vegetación y fuego en la cuenca amazónica durante los últimos 75,000 años." In Ecología y evolución en los trópicos. Leigh, Egbert Giles, Jr., Herre, Edward Allen, Jackson, Jeremy B. C., and Santos-Granero, Fernando, editors. 337–348. Panama: Editora Nova Art. 2007
- Piperno, Dolores R. 2007. "Fitolitos y carbón; evidencia de agricultura de roza y quema prehistórica en el bosque húmedo tropical de Darién en Panamá." In Ecología y evolución en los trópicos. Leigh, Egbert Giles, Jr., Herre, Edward Allen, Jackson, Jeremy B. C., and Santos-Granero, Fernando, editors. 601–607. Panama: Editora Nova Art. 2007
- Piperno, Dolores R., Ranere, Anthony J., Holst, Irene, and Hansell, Patricia. 2007. "Granos de almidón revelan una agricultura primitiva de raíces en un bosque húmedo tropical de Panamá." In Ecología y evolución en los trópicos. Leigh, Egbert Giles, Jr., Herre, Edward Allen, Jackson, Jeremy B. C., and Santos-Granero, Fernando, editors. 594–600. Panama: Editora Nova Art. 2007
- Piperno, Dolores R. 2007. "Prehistoric Human Occupation and Impacts on Neotropical Forest Landscapes During the Late Pleistocene and Early/Middle Holocene." In Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climate Change. Flenley, John R. and Bush, Mark B., editors. 193–218. Springer/Praxis. 2007
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- I teach a course for Princeton University at the STRI for the Princeton-STRI semester abroad program for third year undergraduate biology majors.
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