2026 Tom D. Dillehay: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	44	4146	3828	1974	1791	216	8159

Research.com Recognitions

2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2001 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Tom D. Dillehay is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States and works primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Social Sciences. Their research encompasses subfields such as Paleontology, Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Geography, Planning and Development, and Ecology.

The main topics of study in Dillehay's work include:

Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Latin American history and culture
Marine animal studies overview
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Tom D. Dillehay are:

"Early specialized maritime and maize economies on the north coast of Peru," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Domestication and lowland adaptation of coastal preceramic maize from Paredones, Peru," 2023, eLife
"Comments on Archaeological Remains at the Monte Verde Site Complex, Chile," 2020, PaleoAmerica
"Emergent consilience among coeval fishing and farming communities of the middle holocene on the North Peruvian coast," 2022, Frontiers in Earth Science
"Correction: Domestication and lowland adaptation of coastal preceramic maize from Paredones, Peru," 2023, eLife

Frequent publication venues where Dillehay's work appears include:

PaleoAmerica
Latin American Antiquity
eLife
The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Dillehay has collaborated multiple times with several researchers, including:

Teresa E. Rosales Tham
Patricia J. Netherly
Víctor F. Vásquez Sánchez
Mario Pino
S. L. Goodbred

The researcher has been recognized with the following awards:

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2001

Best Publications

Monte Verde: Seaweed, Food, Medicine, and the Peopling of South America

Tom D. Dillehay;C. Ramírez;M. Pino;M. B. Collins

850
Citations
The settlement of the Americas : a new prehistory

Tom D. Dillehay

552
Citations
Monte Verde: A Late Pleistocene Settlement in Chile.

Jose R. Oliver;Tom D. Dillehay

387
Citations
Preceramic Adoption of Peanut, Squash, and Cotton in Northern Peru

Tom D. Dillehay;Jack Rossen;Thomas C. Andres;David E. Williams

301
Citations
Starch grains on human teeth reveal early broad crop diet in northern Peru

Dolores R. Piperno;Tom D. Dillehay

298
Citations
New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile

Tom D. Dillehay;Tom D. Dillehay;Tom D. Dillehay;Carlos Ocampo;José Saavedra;Andre Oliveira Sawakuchi

295
Citations
Long-term human response to uncertain environmental conditions in the Andes

Tom D. Dillehay;Alan L. Kolata

221
Citations
Probing deeper into first American studies

Tom D. Dillehay

192
Citations
Earliest hunters and gatherers of South America

Tom D. Dillehay;Gerardo Ardila Calderón;Gustavo Politis

185
Citations
Early cultural evidence from Monte Verde in Chile

Tom D. Dillehay;Tom D. Dillehay;Michael B. Collins

179
Citations
The late Pleistocene cultures of South America

Tom D. Dillehay

179
Citations
The late Pleistocene colonization of South America: an interdisciplinary perspective.

Francisco Rothhammer;Francisco Rothhammer;Tom D. Dillehay;Tom D. Dillehay

177
Citations
Specialization, Market Exchange, and the Aztec State: A View From Huexotla [and Comments and Reply]

Elizabeth M. Brumfiel;Kenneth L. Brown;Pedro Carrasco;Robert Chadwick

167
Citations
Preceramic maize from Paredones and Huaca Prieta, Peru

Alexander Grobman;Duccio Bonavia;Tom D. Dillehay;Dolores R. Piperno

162
Citations
Early pre-Hispanic use of indigo blue in Peru

Jeffrey C. Splitstoser;Tom D. Dillehay;Jan Wouters;Ana Claro

162
Citations
Mapuche ceremonial landscape, social recruitment and resource rights

Tom D. Dillehay

158
Citations
On a Pleistocene human occupation at Pedra Furada, Brazil

David J. Meltzer;James M. Adovasio;Tom D. Dillehay

155
Citations
Finding the first Americans.

Todd J. Braje;Tom D. Dillehay;Jon M. Erlandson;Richard G. Klein

139
Citations
Potato remains from a late pleistocene settlement in southcentral Chile

Donald Ugent;Tom Dillehay;Tom Dillehay;Carlos Ramirez

119
Citations
Simple technologies and diverse food strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, Coastal Peru

Tom D. Dillehay;Steve Goodbred;Mario Pino;Víctor F. Vásquez Sánchez

112
Citations
The First Americans: Search and Research

Tom D. Dillehay;David J. Meltzer

109
Citations
Correction: New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile

Tom D. Dillehay;Carlos Ocampo;José Saavedra;Andre Oliveira Sawakuchi

28
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mario Pino Austral University of Chile

Steven L. Goodbred Vanderbilt University

Dolores R. Piperno National Museum of Natural History

André Oliveira Sawakuchi Universidade de São Paulo

David J. Meltzer Southern Methodist University

Jon M. Erlandson University of Oregon

Torben C. Rick National Museum of Natural History

José Iriarte University of Exeter

Donald K. Grayson University of Washington

Michael W. Binford University of Florida

External Links

Personal website of Tom D. Dillehay

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