Deborah M. Pearsall
Deborah M. Pearsall (born 1950) is an American archaeologist who specializes in paleoethnobotany. She maintains an online phytolith database. She was a full professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, where she first began working in 1978 for 35 years. She is still in the department as a professor emerita after retiring in 2013.