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An overview of the latest research outputs from the global tropics. Please get in touch with us if you are interested in adding a summary of your latest research news to Pantropica.

Pre-Columbian Life in the Southwest Amazon
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Pre-Columbian Life in the Southwest Amazon

Posted on June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 by Neil Duncan

Study shows that people have been actively shaping the SW Amazon for over 3,500 years

Indigenous Peoples Were Stewards of the Western Amazon
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Indigenous Peoples Were Stewards of the Western Amazon

Posted on June 14, 2021June 15, 2021 by Dolores Piperno

New Study Points to a History of Indigenous Sustainable Use of the Western Amazon Stretching Back 5,000 Years

Varied landscape response to Iberian invasion of the tropics
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Varied landscape response to Iberian invasion of the tropics

Posted on June 11, 2021June 14, 2021 by Rebecca Hamilton

New paper shows non-uniform landscape responses to the ‘Great Dying’ in the Americas and Asia-Pacific

Multidisciplinary research reveals prehistoric human management of a resilient tropical forest-mangrove landscape in Vietnam
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Multidisciplinary research reveals prehistoric human management of a resilient tropical forest-mangrove landscape in Vietnam

Posted on July 28, 2020July 29, 2020 by Rachael Holmes

Southeast Asia harbours the world’s most diverse and extensive mangroves, and northern Vietnam hosts a large proportion of the region’s mangrove plants. These habitats can…

From the First Farmers to the Spanish Empire: 4000 years of animal and plant introductions to the Philippine Archipelago
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From the First Farmers to the Spanish Empire: 4000 years of animal and plant introductions to the Philippine Archipelago

Posted on July 17, 2020January 19, 2021 by Noel Amano

The Philippine Archipelago is home to some of the world’s richest biodiversity, including some 20,000 plant and animal species found nowhere else in the world.…

Revisiting the Milpa Cycle and the Myth of Mayan Collapse in Anabel Ford’s “The Maya Forest”
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Revisiting the Milpa Cycle and the Myth of Mayan Collapse in Anabel Ford’s “The Maya Forest”

Posted on June 27, 2020June 27, 2020 by Maximillian Findley

The Collapse of the Classic Maya, like the collapse of Rapa Nui’s society, has almost become a byword for environmental degradation. The theory, rapidly summarized,…

Genomic history and ecology of the geographic spread of rice
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Genomic history and ecology of the geographic spread of rice

Posted on June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 by Robert Patalano

Recent research published by Gutaker et al. in Nature Plants reconstructs the history of rice dispersal in Asia using whole-genome sequences of more than 1,400…

Discovery of Oldest Bow and Arrow Technology in Eurasia
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Discovery of Oldest Bow and Arrow Technology in Eurasia

Posted on June 19, 2020June 22, 2020 by Patrick Roberts

New archaeological research demonstrates earliest projectile technology in the tropical rainforests of Sri Lanka The origins of human innovation have traditionally been sought in the…

New Book: ‘Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity’
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New Book: ‘Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity’

Posted on June 19, 2020June 22, 2020 by Patrick Roberts

In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with ‘nature’ and ‘wilderness’, battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and…

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I luckily rescued an email from my spam folder to find out I received funding from the @TheLeakeyFndtn to undertake ZooMS on material from Papua New Guinea! Amazed and grateful! @Katerina__Douka @HeasVienna #PNG #humanorigins #ZooMS

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RobertPatalanoRobert Patalano@RobertPatalano·
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The @InquaRoma2023 conference sessions is now out! @Deepak_Geoarch, @palaeotropics, @MDPetraglia, Dr. Jana Ilgner, and I are convening a session on #biomarkers in Pleistocene archaeology/paleoanth. Please submit abstracts and join us in Rome in 2023!! Please RT and share.

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RobertPatalanoRobert Patalano@RobertPatalano·
8 Apr

Cool new paper by the @PantropicaNet crew on land use change in Pericolonial Philippines. Resistance to Spanish colonial subjugation through the development of a system of intensive wet-rice terrace agriculture!

https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2022.680926

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RobertPatalanoRobert Patalano@RobertPatalano·
25 Mar

Something a bit different for #FossilFriday. All are Metasequoia (dawn redwood):

1. Living in Frankfurt, Germany
2. An Eocene-aged fossil from the Arctic (I think
Ellesmere Island)
3. A Miocene-aged fossil from Clarkia, Idaho

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PaulineGrierso1Pauline Grierson@PaulineGrierso1·
25 Mar

go @BlueRehn - super interesting work on ancient fires @cabahCoE https://twitter.com/PantropicaNet/status/1506952506177474563

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A new episode of Talkin' Tropics is available! Dr. Emma Rehn (@BlueRehn) chats with @yoshi_maezumi and @RobertPatalano about emerging paleoecological methods and identifying and understanding ancient fires 🔥. ⚓ https://anchor.fm/pantropica/episodes/Talkin-Tropics-Ep--5-Dr--Emma-Rehn-e1g1ss2

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