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ERC_CoG Drivers of Demographic Dynamics led by @umbamoxos.bsky.social at @icta-uab.bsky.social and Prehistoria_UAB. We work in the Bolivian Amazon

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Study unearths sophisticated year-round corn-growing system in ancient Bolivian Amazon Between 600 and 1,500 years ago, Indigenous people of the seasonally flooded savannas in the Bolivian Amazon created an advanced farming system that allowed them to grow corn throughout the year, acco...

New study by ICTA-UAB unearths sophisticated year-round corn-growing system in ancient Bolivian Amazon

The Casarabe culture built an innovative dual water management system of drainage canals and ponds.

Published in @mongabay.bsky.social

news.mongabay.com/2025/02/stud...

28.02.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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This was #ECTE2025 !!!
Thanks to all participants for making this an amazing experience 😌
Thanks to Jelle Kraak for taking the photos (@kraakkiekjes)

27.02.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Demodrivers post doc Kate Dudgeon presenting pre-Columbian landscape transformation in the Llanos de Mozos at #ecte2025

25.02.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great keynote talk by Nina Witteveen at #ecte2025

25.02.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We are in Amsterdam for the #ECTE2025 Chairing the "Anthropic Tropics" session

25.02.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In search of the ancient Amazonians who left only eerie forest islands In Llanos de Moxos, an expanse of floodplains fringing the Bolivian rainforest, strange clumps of trees offer clues about a lost civilisation

In the middle of Bolivia’s worst fire season, I went with @umbamoxos.bsky.social to the scorched plains on edge of the Amazon, where archaeologists are drilling into the deep history of the mysterious forest islands.

For @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...

10.02.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In search of the ancient Amazonians who left only eerie forest islands In Llanos de Moxos, an expanse of floodplains fringing the Bolivian rainforest, strange clumps of trees offer clues about a lost civilisation

πŸ§ͺ Report of @thomas-graham.bsky.social about our 2024 field work just published in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/world/latin-... @demodrivers.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

10.02.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Un sistema de riego supuso una revoluciΓ³n en la Amazonia precolombina El desarrollo de este sofisticado sistema de ingenierΓ­a agrΓ­cola les permitiΓ³ cultivar maΓ­z durante todo el aΓ±o, segΓΊn un reciente descubrimiento realizado por un equipo internacional de investigadore...

Un sistema de riego supuso una revoluciΓ³n en la Amazonia precolombina.

Hallazgo del equipo del ICTA-UAB del grupo @demodrivers.bsky.social liderado por @umbamoxos.bsky.social .

lasexta.com/tecnologia-t...

03.02.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Evidence of a Pre-Columbian Green Revolution in the Bolivian Amazon
YouTube video by ICTA-UAB Evidence of a Pre-Columbian Green Revolution in the Bolivian Amazon

β›οΈπŸ’§πŸŒ½Contradictory to previous theories, a pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce maize throughout the year, according to a new ICTA-UAB research led by @umbamoxos.bsky.social
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdV-...

31.01.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia - Nature Remote sensing, field survey and microbotanical analyses show that the pre-Columbian Casarabe culture in the Bolivian Amazon invested heavily in landscape engineering, constructing a complex system of...

"The combination of...drainage canals and farm pondsβ€”is unique to the MMR...it was a highly innovative agricultural strategy that enabled the Casarabe culture to substantially increase the cultivation period for maize, as well as providing easy access to fish, birds and game"
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

30.01.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @ercresearch.bsky.social Let's give 10M and a permanent position to anyone who wants to move his/her lab to Europe! πŸ§ͺ

31.01.2025 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life Hear the latest science news from the Nature Podcast | 29 January 2025

This week on @naturepodcast.bsky.social:

πŸŒ‘ Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu reveal the presence of building blocks of life
πŸͺΈ How seaweed farms could capture carbon
πŸ’ Why chimps follow each other to the bathroom
🌾 How maize might have supported a civilization

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

30.01.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life Hear the latest science news from the Nature Podcast | 29 January 2025

Could 🌽maize🌽 have supported a mysterious South American culture?

A new paper by @umbamoxos.bsky.social et al. found lots and lots of evidence of maize. He told me "wow, there is only maize" for @nature.com this week.

Listen to the full story at 16:31 here:

30.01.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great start of the year for ERC_CoG DEMODRIVERS !!
@icta-uab.bsky.social @uabbarcelona.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social
πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

31.01.2025 06:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ohh if you want to see some more about that maize paper the team have made a fun video where you can see the sites where the Casarabe lived!

30.01.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Evidence of a Pre-Columbian Green Revolution in the Bolivian Amazon
YouTube video by ICTA-UAB Evidence of a Pre-Columbian Green Revolution in the Bolivian Amazon

We made a short video www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdV-... to provide some insights about our recent @nature.com paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... Enjoy and share ! πŸ§ͺ

30.01.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

You thrilled at the Guns of Navarone.
You swooned at the Bridges of Madison County.
now, marvel at the Cornfields of Casarabe!

30.01.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Discovery of a unique drainage and irrigation system that gave way to the 'Neolithic Revolution' in the Amazon A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce maize throughout the year, according to a discovery by a team of researcher...

πŸ†•πŸ”Discovery of a unique drainage and irrigation system that gave way to the 'Neolithic Revolution' in the Amazon.

New ICTA_UAB research led by @umbamoxos.bsky.social Umberto Lombardo

phys.org/news/2025-01....

30.01.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia - Nature Remote sensing, field survey and microbotanical analyses show that the pre-Columbian Casarabe culture in the Bolivian Amazon invested heavily in landscape engineering, constructing a complex system of...

Pre-Columbian Amazonians farmed fields of maize: Lombardo, et al. Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

29.01.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life Hear the latest science news from the Nature Podcast | 29 January 2025

If, like me, you've been wondering what all the fuss is with this new AI model DeepSeek R1, I spoke to my colleague Nisha Gaind all about it for @nature.com's podcast where she laid it all out (at 25:52) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

29.01.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia - Nature Remote sensing, field survey and microbotanical analyses show that the pre-Columbian Casarabe culture in the Bolivian Amazon invested heavily in landscape engineering, constructing a complex system of...

πŸ“’Paper AlertπŸ“’ First DEMODRIVERS paper out in Nature !! www.nature.com/articles/s41... πŸ§ͺ

29.01.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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