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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Denise Pahl Schaan

A major loss for Amazonian Archaeology

Domestication of Amazonian Forests

A new conceptual model

Pre-Columbian earthworks along the entire southern rim of the Amazon

New insights on pre-Columbian populations on the Amazon

Tropical Forest Conservation

New UNESCO book

Rice so nice it was domesticated thrice

Amazonian rice domestication

The deep human history of tropicals forests

and its relevance for modern conservation

Too early to argue for localized, short-term human impact in Amazonia

Read letters in PNAS

Effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

Domesticated species are five times more likely than nondomesticated species to be hyperdominant

Impact on the Geoglyph Builders on Amazonian Forests

Only small, temporary clearing were made to build the geoglyphs with a larger managed landscape

On Going Projects

Upcoming Conferences

83 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 11-15 2018, Washington D.C.
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, April 10-14 2018, New Orleans
56 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, July 15-20 2018, Salamanca

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
12/12/2013
Unnatural Histories of the Largest Tropical Forest of the World
10/12/2013
End of the Year CCA Churrasco-Asado-BBQ

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