Fryxell Symposium in Honor of Dolores Piperno

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Fryxell Symposium in Honor of Dolores Piperno" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This symposium is in honor of Dolores Piperno in honor of her selection as the recipient of the Fryxell Award. In her introductory article and profile in the “Proceedings of the National Academy of Science” Dr. Piperno discussed the value of interdisciplinary research. She discussed employing multiple lines of evidence in order to create a more robust scientific argument. This dedication to data and scientific reasoning is a primary factor in the growing respect for her early research which challenged conventional thinking about early agriculture in the Americas. Dr. Piperno’s research has reached around the world, established a robust new science that is utilized by scientists both within and outside of archaeology, and pushed the boundaries of research in previously under-documented regions of the world. This has been a career of scientific firsts and dogged pursuit of the best evidence with which to construct our vision of the past.

Other Keywords
Paleoethnobotany • Andes: Formative • Subsistence and Foodways • Zooarchaeology • Paleoclimate • Mollusks • Phytoliths • Agricultural Origins • Trade and exchange • Household Archaeology

Geographic Keywords
Republic of Panama (Country) • Republic of Colombia (Country) • Netherlands Antilles (Country) • Aruba (Country) • Republic of Ecuador (Country) • South America (Continent) • Republic of El Salvador (Country) • Republic of Guatemala (Country) • Republic of Peru (Country) • Republic of Chile (Country)

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  • Communal Before Domestic? Preceramic Contexts of Exotic Food Adoption in North Peru (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Tom Dillehay.

    This is an abstract from the "Fryxell Symposium in Honor of Dolores Piperno" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have long hypothesized the causes and conditions of the transition from foraging to food production. Of specific interest here are the social and ecological conditions generating the adoption of exotic plants. Some of the best-documented paleoecological and archaeological evidence for initial food production and the adoption...

  • Follow the Llamero: the Movement of Plant Foodstuffs in the Andes (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sadie Weber. Matthew Sayre.

    This is an abstract from the "Fryxell Symposium in Honor of Dolores Piperno" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The exchange of goods and movement among different ecozones is a hallmark of Andean society. Key to this system of mobility were camelid caravans, which are possibly best known for the Wari or Tiwanaku cultures but are today dwindling in frequency or have disappeared in the Andes. These caravans were established in the much earlier Formative...

  • How Advances in Archaeobotany Benefit Us All: Perspectives from Zooarchaeology, Bioarchaeology, and Isotope Research (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Sharpe. Richard Cooke. Nicole Smith-Guzmán.

    This is an abstract from the "Fryxell Symposium in Honor of Dolores Piperno" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The origin of agriculture in the American tropics drastically altered human societies and their environmental settings. Through the domestication of various plants for subsistence, medicine, and technological purposes, human populations grew and expanded at an unprecedented rate across the landscape from the Middle Holocene onward, spreading...

  • Maize Domestication and Dispersal in the Americas (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas J. Kennett. Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra.

    This is an abstract from the "Fryxell Symposium in Honor of Dolores Piperno" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dolores Piperno’s work during the last four decades transformed our understanding of maize domestication and dispersal in the Americas. To honor this legacy we synthesize current genetic, paleoecological, and archaeological data regarding the early development of this globally important staple crop. Genetic evidence indicates initial...

  • Peppers and People in Mesoamerica: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Tracing the Origin and Domestication of Chiles (Capsicum annuum var. annuum L.) (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Chiou. Araceli Aguilar-Meléndez. Christine Hastorf. Andrés Lira-Noriega. Emiliano Gallaga Murrieta.

    This is an abstract from the "Fryxell Symposium in Honor of Dolores Piperno" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dolores Piperno’s career has been defined by pioneering work in multidisciplinary and collaborative plant research. Following in her footsteps, this interdisciplinary team comprised of archaeologists/archaeobotanists, an ethnobotanist, and a biogeographer assembled to investigate the origins and domestication of Capsicum annuum var. annuum...

  • Tubers, Grain, and Everything In Between: Mesoamerican Applications of Dolores Piperno’s Research (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Shanti Morell-Hart.

    This is an abstract from the "Fryxell Symposium in Honor of Dolores Piperno" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past several decades, Dolores Piperno has made broad contributions to archaeology and deep contributions to paleoethnobotany. Her published work includes studies on the origins of agriculture in the Neotropics, the presence of cooked plants in Neanderthal diets, the process of domestication, the use of wild cereals in the Upper...

  • What the Shells Tell: Interdisciplinary Malocoarchaeology and Holocene Paleoclimate in Coastal Peru (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Sandweiss.

    This is an abstract from the "Fryxell Symposium in Honor of Dolores Piperno" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dolores Piperno has been a trailblazer in interdisciplinary research, building on deep, innovative approaches to plant remains to answer a multitude of questions in archaeology and beyond. In this interdisciplinary spirit, I review research into Holocene paleoclimate along the Peruvian coast derived in the first instance from the study of...