Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia

Nature, Published online: 29 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08473-yRemote 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.

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Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia

Nature, Published online: 29 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08473-yRemote 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.