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Mary Deland Pohl, Ph.D.

Laura Jepsen Professor of Anthropology
Phone: (850) 644-8153
Fax: (850) 645-0032
Email: mpohl@fsu.edu
Office Hours: By Appointment

Research Interests and Activities

  • Mesoamerican archaeology
  • Ethnozoology
  • Gender studies
  • Early agriculture

Dr. Pohl's Graduate Students

Select Publications and Writing Projects

2008 David L. Lentz, Mary DeLand Pohl, José Luis Alvarado, Somayeh Tarighat, and Robert Bye Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) as a pre-Columbian domesticate in Mexico
2007 Mary E. D. Pohl, Dolores R. Piperno, Kevin O. Pope, and John G. Jones. Microfossil evidence for pre-Columbian maize dispersals in the neotropics from San Andrés, Tabasco, Mexico PNAS 104:6870-6875
2002 "Pohl, M. E. D., K. O. Pope, and C. von Nagy Olmec Origins of Mesoamerican Writing. Science 298:1984-1986.
2001 " Prehistoric Sunflower (Helianthus Anuus L.) Domestication in Mexico. "Economic Botany 55(3):370-376.
2001 " Origin and Environmental Setting of Ancient Agriculture in the Lowlands of Mesoamerica." Science 292:1370-1373.