About Me

My principal research interests are the investigation of coupled human environment systems in Amazonia, plant domestication and the development of agricultural landscapes, and the emergence of complex societies in the Americas. Read more...

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COVID Emergency - Bolivian Amazon

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COVID Emergency - Kuikuro Initiative

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Humans living in Amazon 10,000 years ago cultivated plants and transformed the landscape

Our new article in Nature

PhD studenship LASTJOURNEY

South American megafaunal ecologies, diets, and mobilities

Pre-Columbian resilience to climate change

New NATECOEVO article by ERC PAST team

V International Meeting of Amazonian Archaeology Announced

Universidad de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

ERC PAST project findings featured in New Scientist

Plant domestication, Amazonian Dark Earth and population estimations

Tropical forest from deep time to modern relevance

New book by Patrick Roberts

Did maize dispersal precede domestication?

New evidence on the role of SW Amazonia on maize evolution

On Going Projects

Groups

Upcoming Conference 2020

12 International Meeting for Phytolith Research, 9-12 Sept, Kiel
25 Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, 4-7 Sept, Bern
V Encuentro Internacional de Arqueologia Amazonica, 20-23 Oct , Lima

Blog

01/06/2017
Why roads are so dangerous?
22/01/2017
The Internet of Things is Coming for Us
03/01/2017
The Forest Ruins

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