DEMODRIVERS

Drivers of Demographic Dynamics.

The DEMODRIVERS project (2023–2027) aims to reconstruct human demography in southwestern Amazonia during the Holocene and to reveal the role of environmental and cultural changes in shaping it. Despite decades of research, the relative importance of environmental and cultural factors in determining prehistoric population growth remains one of the greatest scientific challenges in archaeology. This five-year interdisciplinary project will investigate the patterns and drivers of human demographic dynamics by focusing on a regional case study: the Llanos de Moxos (LM) in the Bolivian Amazon, a region with exceptional explanatory potential. Located in the southwestern edge of the Amazon, this area holds an almost continuous archaeological record, consisting of 4,700 sites spanning 8,300 years across 100,000 km².