PANTROPICAL Virtual Seminar Series #1 A/Prof. S. Acabado on ‘Older is not Necessarily Better: The Short History of the Ifugao Rice Terraces’ ABSTRACT: The long-held…
Tag: archaeology
For our very first episode of Talkin’ Tropics, Dr. Chris Kiahtipes, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology with the Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture…
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…
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,…
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…
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…