Indigenous perspectives

Community Work

Cerro Azul

Settlement of the Americas

Early peopling of Colombia

Settlement of the Americas

Megafauna extinction

Revitalising

Traditional Forest Livelihoods

Lidar

Mapping Ancient Earthworks

Phytoliths

Plants domestication and agricultural dispersals

Amazonian Dark Earths

Human-made tropical soils

Monumental Burials

Je Landscapes of Southern Brazil and Argentina

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The Painted Forest Book

The Painted Forest Book

With an initiative funded by UKRI Translational Funds -Open Innovation Platform we have written and donated 250 books for the Vereda de Cerro Azul community in Guaviare.

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Urbanism in Amazonia

Urbanism in Amazonia

Glad to see the cover of Nature illustrated with our lidar work revealing low density urbanism in the Llanos de Moxos.
It was voted some the of best stories of the year by Nature Briefing.

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About me

I am an Archaeologist and Archaeobotanist with a strong track record of research on human environmental interactions, the development of agricultural economies, and the emergence of complex societies in lowland South and Central America.

I currently direct the University of Exeter Archaeobotany and Paleoecology Laboratory and I’m member of the Centre for the Archaeology of the Americas and the HUMANE research group.

My research has extensive visibility in international media including BBC, National Geographic, New Scientist, Scientific American to mention a few.

Presentations

National Geographic Explorer Festival

New light under the Amazon forest

Early rock art symposium

Work groups

University of Exeter
HumAnE Bioarchaeology
Arqueotrop