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...

Latest News

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

Humans as drivers of Araucaria forest expansion

Southern Je project reveals - Archaeology Magazine

The legacy of 4500 years of polyculture agroforestry

Nature Plants CNN

Domestication of Amazonian Forests

A new conceptual model

Tropical Forest Conservation

New UNESCO book

On Going Projects

Groups

Upcoming Conferences

INQUA 2019, July 25-31 2019, Dublin
European Association of Archaeologists, 4-7 Sept 2019, Bern
Society for Brazilian Archaeology, SAB, Nov 4-8 2019, Pelotas
V Encuentro Internacional de Arqueologia Amazonica, 20-23 Oct 2020, 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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