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Esmeralda Cruz-Silva<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Postdoctoral Research Associate<\/p>\n

\"\"Esme is a Postdoctoral Research Associate working on the EcoArch\u00a0\u00a0(Ecological Archeologies of the Afrotropics)\u00a0<\/span>project, an international collaboration examining how climate, vegetation, wildfire, and human activity shaped African and Middle Eastern landscapes throughout the Holocene. Her research develops and apply statistical and modelling tools to explore these interactions, focusing on local-scale dynamics near key Afrotropical archaeological sites, bridging site-level evidence with broader environmental patterns. She also contributes to continent-wide reconstructions of past climate, vegetation, and fire regimes to improve Earth system models. With previous research across the Eastern Mediterranean, tropical America, and East Asia, Esme works at the intersection of paleoecology, archaeology, and climate science to understand long-term Earth system change from local to continental scales.<\/p>\n

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