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...

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

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

Great keynote talk by Nina Witteveen at #ecte2025

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

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-...

🧪 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

Un sistema de riego supuso una revolución en la Amazonia precolombina. Hallazgo del equipo del ICTA-UAB del grupo @demodrivers.bsky.social liderado por @umbamoxos.bsky.social . lasexta.com/tecnologia-t...

⛏️💧🌽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-...

"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...

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! 🧪

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...

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:

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

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!

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 ! 🧪

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

🆕🔝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....

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...

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...

📢Paper Alert📢 First DEMODRIVERS paper out in Nature !! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

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

We are here!