Margaret Adebisi Sowunmipronunciationⓘ (née Jadesimi) (born September 24, 1939) is a Nigerian botanist and environmental archaeologist.
In order to undertake research in palynology, Sowunmi travelled to Sweden to study with Gunnar Erdtman, who supervised her PhD.
[2] In 1967 Sowunmi was appointed a post-doctoral research fellow in the Archaeology Unit at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan.
[2] Sowunmi's research achievements include the first identifications of the age and paleoenvironment of the Gwandu Formation, the first descriptions of Eocene pollen of the Ogwashi-Asaba Formation,[6] the first study of Late Quaternary vegetation and environmental history of Nigeria,[7] and the first study of pollen from an archaeological site in Nigeria.
[2] In 2003, Sowunmi received an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree in the Humanities by Uppsala University to recognised her outstanding scholarship and research and teaching contributions in environmental archaeology and paleobotany.