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Sara Eshleman
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Human-environment geographer | Postdoc at the University of Exeter | exploring landscape legacies with lidar and spatial models
A busy, but successful field season completed. Now off to Oaxaca for the ATBC meeting!

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Bladen Legacy Field Season 2025 – Bladen Legacy
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June 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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The Centre for the Archaeology of the Americas will be hosting our next seminar, with updates from six different members of staff on their recent research.

Thursday 6 March , 12.30-2pm
LT3 and online (see image for Teams log-in details)
March 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Come and research with us! Post-doc for AHRC/DFG research project 'Pastoralists Lost', involves zooarchaeology and isotopes in Kazakhstan to understand early domestic horses and pastoralism in the Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age. Details in link: jobs2.exeter.ac.uk/selfservice....
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March 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Amazon flora and forest functional composition
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Congratulations to all authors, led by Hans ter Steege, and with 2054 carefully-inventoried Amazon plots!
March 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The @uoearchhist.bsky.social contingent had a busy morning presenting at the European Conference of Tropical Ecology #ECTE2025
February 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Such a nice first session!!!
February 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Nature research paper: Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia

https://go.nature.com/3Ed9LYt
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 drainage canals and newly documented savannah farm ponds.
go.nature.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Fire is an essential, natural process that has shaped the world’s landscapes for millions of years -- but extreme wildfires are becoming more frequent, severe, and extensive thanks to human-caused climate change.

We've just updated this explainer on climate and fire. Check it out to learn more --
Yes, Climate Change is Raising the Risks—and Stakes—of Extreme Wildfires
Rising temperatures, parched forests, and shifting precipitation patterns are fueling severe wildfires with unprecedented impacts. There is still time to act.
www.nature.org
July 12, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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Job Klaxon! 🚨 Our archaeology department here at @exeter.ac.uk is looking for a Database Manager to help create an open-access digital repository for the curation and sharing of digital 3D files. Initial contract 15 months, apply by 5 Jan: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... (search Database Manager)
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December 19, 2024 at 11:19 AM