Fryxell Symposium in Honor of Dolores Piperno

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.