The discovery, led by Umberto Lombardo, an environmental archaeologist at the UAB, has identified a unique agricultural infrastructure previously undocumented anywhere else in the world.

The research, led by Umberto Lombardo from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, detailed how the Casarabe people constructed extensive drainage canals and agricultural ponds, enabling at least ...

Between 600 and 1,500 years ago, Indigenous people of the seasonally flooded savannas in the Bolivian Amazon created an ...

This is the stamping-ground of Umberto Lombardo, of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Archaeologists once thought the Amazon basin’s soil would have been too poor to have sustained a large ...

BERN, SWITZERLAND—Gizmodo reports that evidence for the cultivation of crops some 10,000 years ago has been discovered in southwestern Amazonia by researchers led by Umberto Lombardo of the ...

Umberto Lombardo is a geo-archaeologist studying landscape evolution in Bolivia, near the city of Trinidad. He says he hasn't seen a single blue sky in two months - because of thick smoke from ...

according to research published August 28 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Umberto Lombardo from the University of Bern, Switzerland and colleagues from other institutions. The study focuses ...