Dolores R. Piperno

Research.com Recognitions

• 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2005 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies

  Greger Larson;Dolores R. Piperno;Robin G. Allaby;Michael D. Purugganan

  896
  Citations

• Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico

  Dolores R. Piperno;Anthony J. Ranere;Irene Holst;Jose Iriarte

  810
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• Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium)

  Amanda G. Henry;Alison S. Brooks;Dolores R. Piperno

  674
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• The earliest archaeological maize (Zea mays L.) from highland Mexico: New accelerator mass spectrometry dates and their implications

  Dolores R. Piperno;Kent V. Flannery

  657
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• Processing of wild cereal grains in the Upper Palaeolithic revealed by starch grain analysis

  Dolores R. Piperno;Dolores R. Piperno;Ehud Weiss;Irene Holst;Dani Nadel

  614
  Citations

• The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the New World Tropics

  Dolores R. Piperno

  494
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• Starch grains reveal early root crop horticulture in the Panamanian tropical forest

  Dolores R. Piperno;Anthony J. Ranere;Irene Holst;Patricia Hansell

  456
  Citations

• The presence of starch grains on prehistoric stone tools from the humid neotropics : Indications of early tuber use and agriculture in Panama

  D.R. Piperno;I. Holst

  361
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• The silica bodies of tropical American grasses : morphology, taxonomy, and implications for grass systematics and fossil phytolith identification

  Dolores R. Piperno;Deborah M. Pearsall

  336
  Citations

• A 14 300-YR PALEOECOLOGICAL PROFILE OF A LOWLAND TROPICAL LAKE IN PANAMA'

  Mark B. Bush;Dolores R. Piperno;Paul A. Colinvaux;Paulo E. De Oliveira

  320
  Citations

• Changes in starch grain morphologies from cooking

  Amanda G. Henry;Amanda G. Henry;Holly F. Hudson;Dolores R. Piperno;Dolores R. Piperno

  310
  Citations

• The cultural and chronological context of early Holocene maize and squash domestication in the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico

  Anthony J. Ranere;Dolores R. Piperno;Irene Holst;Ruth Dickau

  300
  Citations

• Starch grains on human teeth reveal early broad crop diet in northern Peru

  Dolores R. Piperno;Tom D. Dillehay

  298
  Citations

• Using plant microfossils from dental calculus to recover human diet: a case study from Tell al-Raqā'i, Syria

  Amanda G. Henry;Dolores R. Piperno;Dolores R. Piperno

  286
  Citations

• Late pleistocene temperature depression and vegetation change in Ecuadorian Amazonia

  Mark B. Bush;Paul A. Colinvaux;Michael C. Wiemann;Dolores R. Piperno

  274
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• Phylogenetic relationships among domesticated and wild species of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae) inferred from a mitochondrial gene: Implications for crop plant evolution and areas of origin

  Oris I. Sanjur;Dolores R. Piperno;Thomas C. Andres;Linda Wessel-Beaver

  271
  Citations

• Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans

  Amanda G. Henry;Alison S. Brooks;Dolores R. Piperno;Dolores R. Piperno

  243
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• Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

  Jennifer Sills;P. H. Gleick;R. M. Adams;R. M. Amasino

  236
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• Distinguishing rice ( Oryza sativa poaceae) from wild Oryza species through phytolith analysis, II Finalized method

  Zhijun Zhao;Deborah M. Pearsall;Robert A. Benfer;Dolores R. Piperno

  201
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• Phytolith Analysis: An Archaeological and Geological Perspective

  Stanton W. Green;Dolores R. Piperno

  6
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