The Spanish Army, one of the most powerful navies of the Modern Age and a major agent of imperial expansion, relied on large-scale hemp cultivation and retting for the manufacture of ropes and sails The genetic identification of specific retting…
Monthly Archives: December 2022
The Caribbean mangroves: climatic, eustatic and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change
Mangroves are among the world’s most threatened ecosystems. Understanding how these ecosystems responded to past natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change is essential not only for understanding how extant mangroves have been shaped but also for informing their conservation.…
Tagged with: Caribbean, climate change, deforestation, Holocene, human impact, mangroves, Neotropics, paleoecology, palynology, Pleistocene, Quaternary, sea level
Posted in My publications, special issues
Posted in My publications, special issues
What do Easter Island, the Pyrenees and the Caribbean have in common?
This year, I have published a book on the prehistory of Easter Island, coedited with Christopher Stevenson, from the Virginia Commonwealth University (USA). The book has been issued by Springer Nature and is a collection of selected papers on the…
Tagged with: biogeography, Caribbean, Easter Island, ecology, Eocene, Europe, evolution, Holocene, Miocene, Neogene, Neotropics, Pacific, paleoecology, Paleogene, palynology, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Polynesia, Pyrenees, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, vegetation dynamics, vegetation responses
Posted in Books, My publications
Posted in Books, My publications
Cannabis entered the Iberian Peninsula well before its domestication
A study shows that Cannabis entered the Iberian Peninsula in its wild form during the Upper Paleolithic and underwent two further introduction waves, one in the Neolithic and another in the Middle Ages, likely in cultivated forms The main routes…
Tagged with: biogeography, Bronze Age, Cannabis, Chalcolithic, cultivated, dispersal, hemp, Holocene, Iberian Peninsula, Iron Age, Mesolithic, Middle Ages, Modern Age, Neolithic, Paleolithic, Pleistocene, pollen, Roman Epoch, wild
Posted in Cannabis, My publications
Posted in Cannabis, My publications
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