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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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...

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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...

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Society for Tropical Ecology @soctropecol.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This was #ECTE2025 !!! Thanks to all participants for making this an amazing experience 😌 Thanks to Jelle Kraak for taking the photos (@kraakkiekjes)

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DEMODRIVERS ERC_CoG @demodrivers.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Demodrivers post doc Kate Dudgeon presenting pre-Columbian landscape transformation in the Llanos de Mozos at #ecte2025

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DEMODRIVERS ERC_CoG @demodrivers.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We are in Amsterdam for the #ECTE2025 Chairing the "Anthropic Tropics" session

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Thomas Graham @thomas-graham.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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-...

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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

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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

⛏️💧🌽Contradictory 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 ⁠ Video 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdV-...

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Evidence of a Pre-Columbian Green Revolution in the Bolivian Amazon

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

"The combination of...drainage canals and farm ponds—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...

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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...

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Umberto Lombardo @umbamoxos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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! 🧪

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Nature Podcast @naturepodcast.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This week on @naturepodcast.bsky.social: 🌑 Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu reveal the presence of building blocks of life 🪸 How seaweed farms could capture carbon 🐒 Why chimps follow each other to the bathroom 🌾 How maize might have supported a civilization www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life

Hear the latest science news from the Nature Podcast | 29 January 2025

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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:

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Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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!

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DEMODRIVERS ERC_CoG @demodrivers.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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 ! 🧪

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Evidence of a Pre-Columbian Green Revolution in the Bolivian Amazon

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Henry Gee 亨利·纪 @endofthepier.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

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

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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...

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Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life

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DEMODRIVERS ERC_CoG @demodrivers.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We start our new journey in @bsky.app by posting a few photos from our 2024 fieldwork season in the Bolivian Amazon

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