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

Humans as drivers of Araucaria forest expansion

Southern Je project reveals - Archaeology Magazine

The legacy of 4500 years of polyculture agroforestry

Nature Plants CNN

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

On Going Projects

Upcoming Conferences

39th Association for Environmental Archaeology Conference, Nov 29-Dec 1 2018, Aarhus
84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 10-14 2019, Albuquerque

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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