Dolores Piperno

Dolores Rita Piperno (die 7 Aprilis 1949 nata) est archaeobotanista quae praesertim de antiquitatibus Americanis inquiret.

Philadelphiae et in urbe Pennsauken Novae Caesareae educata est. Technologiae medicae studuit apud universitatem Rutgersensem munerique biotechnologico in nosocomio Presbyteriano Philadelphiensi aliquot annos functa est. Anthropologiae autem mox studuit apud universitatem Temple ubi anno 1983 gradum doctoris ascendit. In Israële sed maiori parte in Amazonia et Mesoamerica operam dedit. Erudita senior emerita agnoscitur tam apud museum Nationale Historiae Naturalis Vasingtoniense quam apud Institutum Smithsonianum Inquisitionum Tropicalium Balboae in Panama.

Scripta selecta

2001 (cum K. V. Flannery) : "The earliest archaeological maize (Zea mays L.) from highland Mexico: New accelerator mass spectrometry dates and their implications" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 98 (2001) pp. 2101–2103
2004 (cum aliis) : "Processing of wild cereal grains in the Upper Palaeolithic revealed by starch grain analysis" in Nature vol. 430 (5 August 2004) pp. 670-673 Epitome
2007 (cum aliis) : "Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental history of the Iguala Valley, Central Balsas Watershed of Mexico" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 104 pp. 11874–11881
2009 (cum aliis) : "Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 106 pp. 5019–5024
2009 (cum Anthony J. Ranere aliisque) : "The cultural and chronological context of early Holocene maize and squash domestication in the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 106 pp. 5014–5018
2011 : "The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the New World Tropics: Patterns, Process, and New Developments" in Current Anthropology vol. 52, no. S4 (2011) pp. S453-S470; eadem res alibi

M. Balter, "Profile: Dolores Piperno. In archaeobotanist's hands, tiny fossils yield big answers" in Science vol. 329 (2010) pp. 28–29
Tinsley H. Davis, "Profile of Dolores R. Piperno" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 104 (2007) pp. 11871–11873