Sara Eshleman

Bladen Legacy Field Season 2025 – Bladen Legacy

A busy, but successful field season completed. Now off to Oaxaca for the ATBC meeting!

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Poster for this event, with three images: a mountainous landscape with a stone wall and cacti and very blue sky; a digitial terrain model of a landscape and a hut or shelter with smoke coming out of the roof, in a jungle environment. DM for Teams details.

The Centre for the Archaeology of the Americas will be hosting our next seminar, with updates from six different members of staff on their recent research.

Thursday 6 March , 12.30-2pm
LT3 and online (see image for Teams log-in details)

04.03.2025 10:40 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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Come and research with us! Post-doc for AHRC/DFG research project 'Pastoralists Lost', involves zooarchaeology and isotopes in Kazakhstan to understand early domestic horses and pastoralism in the Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age. Details in link: jobs2.exeter.ac.uk/selfservice....

01.03.2025 16:16 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Amazon flora and forest functional composition
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Congratulations to all authors, led by Hans ter Steege, and with 2054 carefully-inventoried Amazon plots!

04.03.2025 11:07 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

The @uoearchhist.bsky.social contingent had a busy morning presenting at the European Conference of Tropical Ecology #ECTE2025

25.02.2025 14:09 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Such a nice first session!!!

25.02.2025 12:12 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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 drainage canals and newly documented savannah farm ponds.

Nature research paper: Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia

https://go.nature.com/3Ed9LYt

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Yes, Climate Change is Raising the Risks—and Stakes—of Extreme Wildfires Rising temperatures, parched forests, and shifting precipitation patterns are fueling severe wildfires with unprecedented impacts. There is still time to act.

Fire is an essential, natural process that has shaped the world’s landscapes for millions of years -- but extreme wildfires are becoming more frequent, severe, and extensive thanks to human-caused climate change.

We've just updated this explainer on climate and fire. Check it out to learn more --

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How this guide is preserving Maya culture through food In the wilderness of southern Belize, one man is on a mission to conserve and commemorate the ancient Maya way of life, including its storied cuisine — one garden tour at a time.

It's nice to see my friend, Jose, featured in National Geographic Traveller!

www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...

05.01.2025 15:35 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Job Klaxon! 🚨 Our archaeology department here at @exeter.ac.uk is looking for a Database Manager to help create an open-access digital repository for the curation and sharing of digital 3D files. Initial contract 15 months, apply by 5 Jan: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... (search Database Manager)

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