Kristen Johnson Gremillion (born November 17, 1958) is an American anthropologist whose areas of specialization include paleoethnobotany, origins of agriculture, the prehistory of eastern North America, human paleoecology and paleodiet, and the evolutionary theory.
She grew up in New Orleans and only left in 1982 when she went to attend graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
After completing her degrees, in 1990 she became a visiting lecturer for East Carolina University's Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
In 1999, Gremillion was granted an adjunct appointment in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at the same university.
[citation needed] In 1992 she was the project director and field supervisor for excavations at Rock Bridge shelter in Wolfe Co., KY.
Her other field work after this includes: Gremillion's publications have centered on food production, crops, and dietary analysis of societies in the archaeological record.
Gremillion, Kristen J.; Sobolik, Kristin D. (1996), "Dietary Variability among Prehistoric Forager-Farmers of Eastern North America", Current Anthropology, 37 (3): 529–539, doi:10.1086/204515, S2CID 54044182