Deborah M. Pearsall (born 1950) is an American archaeologist who specializes in paleoethnobotany.
Pearsall received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979, with a dissertation titled The Application of Ethnobotanical Techniques to the Problem of Subsistence in the Ecuadorian Formative.
Pearsall was awarded the 2002 Fryxell Award for Exceptional Interdisciplinary Research by the Society for American Archaeology.
[1] In 2020, she received the Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award by the Society of Ethnobiology.
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