Maria Follieri (1932–2012) was a pioneering Italian archaeobotanist and held the Chair of Palaeobotany at La Sapienza.
She lectured at La Sapienza in palaeobotany from 1965 onwards, being appointed Associate Professor in 1980.
In 1986, she was promoted to Professor of Botany at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, before being appointed to the Chair of Palaeobotany in 1991.
Follieri was one of the co-founders of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany in 1966, alongside Maria Hopf and Jane Renfrew.
[1] Her research spanned multiple themes, include the study of palaeoeclimate, palaeoethnobotany, and palaeovegetation, and chronologically, from the Quaternary period to the Classical world.