Jesús Escobar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1045473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesús Escobar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesús |
| FAMILY NAME | Escobar |
| SIGNATURE | ESCOBAR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7775-7130 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
High stability in an eastern North American temperate forest during the late Holocene
The Arts of Encounter
The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain. Catherine Infante. Toronto Iberic 66. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. x + 250 pp. $70. - Volume 78 Issue 3
The environmental signal of lake sediments in Mesoamerica
Lake sediment composition depends on the environmental context where sediments are produced, transported, and deposited. Factors involved in sedimentary processes imprint specific signatures on sediments, thus providing evidence on the environmental context at the time of deposition. The interaction of the involved factors and processes, however, results in complex signals that in some instances are difficult to interpret. Here, we explore and qu…
Humans and climate in ritualized landscapes, the case of Lake Tota in the eastern highlands of Colombia
Tota is an Andean lake located in the Altiplano of the Eastern Andes of Colombia where socio-politically hierarchical societies of the Herrera and Muisca, flourished for millennia. To them, the lake and surrounding forest were places used for diverse of activities including religious rituals. In this study we produced a multi-proxy paleolimnological reconstruction using diatoms, isotopes, and geochemistry, to try to understand the lake’s pathways…
Enlightenment Erasure
This article addresses the curious absence of seventeenth-century buildings in traditional histories of Spanish architecture. Beginning with the Noticias de los arquitectos y la arquitectura en España, a foundational work published in 1829, the article traces the legacy of a Spanish Enlightenment myth about the seventeenth century as a time of a weak monarchy whose overly ornamental architecture can be understood as a reflection of political deca…
Novel responses of diatoms in neotropical mountain lakes to indigenous and post-European occupation
Ecology and paleoenvironmental application of testate amoebae in peatlands of the high-elevation Colombian páramo
We investigated the ecology and paleoecology of testate amoebae in peatlands of the Colombian páramo to assess the use of testate amoebae as paleoenvironmental indicators. Objectives were to (1) identify environmental controls on testate amoebae, (2) develop transfer functions for paleoenvironmental inference, and (3) examine testate amoebae in a Holocene peat core and compare our findings with other proxy records. Results from 96 modern samples …
Paleoclimate support for a persistent dry island effect in the Colombian Andes during the last 4700 years
We investigated middle- and late-Holocene hydroclimate patterns in the Colombian Andes using indicators of watershed erosion (lithic abundance), precipitation intensity (% silt), lake-level variability (organic carbon and nitrogen, % sand, and diatoms), and fire frequency (fossil charcoal) from a ~4700-year-long sediment archive from Laguna de Ubaque, a small sub-alpine lake on the eastern flank of the eastern Colombian Andes. Our results indicat…
Middle to late Holocene relative sea level rise, climate variability and environmental change along the Colombian Caribbean coast
We analyzed diatoms, lithology, and stable isotopes in a sediment core from the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta lagoon to reveal the history of late Holocene relative sea level rise and the ontogeny of the lagoon on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. At ~5300 cal. yr BP, the area was characterized by shallow, freshwater ponds that were prone to seasonal flooding. From ~4250 to ~2060 cal. yr BP, these ponds became brackish as relative sea level began …
Environmental and cultural changes in highland Guatemala inferred from Lake Amatitlán sediments
We inferred the late Holocene environmental history of the Guatemala highlands from multiple lines of evidence in a sediment core from Lake Amatitlán. Inferred environmental changes are generally synchronous with archaeologically documented highland Maya cultural shifts. Population increases in the Middle Preclassic, Early Classic, and Late Postclassic are associated with deforestation and soil erosion. Land abandonment in the Late Preclassic, La…
Francisco De Sotomayor and Nascent Urbanism in Sixteenth-Century Madrid
This article examines a document in the Spanish National Archive at Simancas, which entails a list of urban reform projects for Madrid in its early years as both court and de facto capital of the Spanish Habsburg monarchy. Herein, the document is dated to 1565 and attributed to Francisco de Sotomayor, a corregidor, or royal governor of the city appointed by Philip II. Sotomayor's report on urban reforms was informed by years of service in Madrid …
Madrid, Urbs Regia
Environmental and cultural changes in highland Guatemala inferred from Lake Amatitlán sediments
We inferred the late Holocene environmental history of the Guatemala highlands from multiple lines of evidence in a sediment core from Lake Amatitlán. Inferred environmental changes are generally synchronous with archaeologically documented highland Maya cultural shifts. Population increases in the Middle Preclassic, Early Classic, and Late Postclassic are associated with deforestation and soil erosion. Land abandonment in the Late Preclassic, La…
Middle to late Holocene relative sea level rise, climate variability and environmental change along the Colombian Caribbean coast
We analyzed diatoms, lithology, and stable isotopes in a sediment core from the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta lagoon to reveal the history of late Holocene relative sea level rise and the ontogeny of the lagoon on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. At ~5300 cal. yr BP, the area was characterized by shallow, freshwater ponds that were prone to seasonal flooding. From ~4250 to ~2060 cal. yr BP, these ponds became brackish as relative sea level began …
Humans and climate in ritualized landscapes, the case of Lake Tota in the eastern highlands of Colombia
Tota is an Andean lake located in the Altiplano of the Eastern Andes of Colombia where socio-politically hierarchical societies of the Herrera and Muisca, flourished for millennia. To them, the lake and surrounding forest were places used for diverse of activities including religious rituals. In this study we produced a multi-proxy paleolimnological reconstruction using diatoms, isotopes, and geochemistry, to try to understand the lake’s pathways…
Novel responses of diatoms in neotropical mountain lakes to indigenous and post-European occupation
Paleoclimate support for a persistent dry island effect in the Colombian Andes during the last 4700 years
We investigated middle- and late-Holocene hydroclimate patterns in the Colombian Andes using indicators of watershed erosion (lithic abundance), precipitation intensity (% silt), lake-level variability (organic carbon and nitrogen, % sand, and diatoms), and fire frequency (fossil charcoal) from a ~4700-year-long sediment archive from Laguna de Ubaque, a small sub-alpine lake on the eastern flank of the eastern Colombian Andes. Our results indicat…
Madrid, Urbs Regia
Francisco De Sotomayor and Nascent Urbanism in Sixteenth-Century Madrid
This article examines a document in the Spanish National Archive at Simancas, which entails a list of urban reform projects for Madrid in its early years as both court and de facto capital of the Spanish Habsburg monarchy. Herein, the document is dated to 1565 and attributed to Francisco de Sotomayor, a corregidor, or royal governor of the city appointed by Philip II. Sotomayor's report on urban reforms was informed by years of service in Madrid …
Environmental and cultural changes in highland Guatemala inferred from Lake Amatitlán sediments
We inferred the late Holocene environmental history of the Guatemala highlands from multiple lines of evidence in a sediment core from Lake Amatitlán. Inferred environmental changes are generally synchronous with archaeologically documented highland Maya cultural shifts. Population increases in the Middle Preclassic, Early Classic, and Late Postclassic are associated with deforestation and soil erosion. Land abandonment in the Late Preclassic, La…
Middle to late Holocene relative sea level rise, climate variability and environmental change along the Colombian Caribbean coast
We analyzed diatoms, lithology, and stable isotopes in a sediment core from the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta lagoon to reveal the history of late Holocene relative sea level rise and the ontogeny of the lagoon on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. At ~5300 cal. yr BP, the area was characterized by shallow, freshwater ponds that were prone to seasonal flooding. From ~4250 to ~2060 cal. yr BP, these ponds became brackish as relative sea level began …
Paleoclimate support for a persistent dry island effect in the Colombian Andes during the last 4700 years
We investigated middle- and late-Holocene hydroclimate patterns in the Colombian Andes using indicators of watershed erosion (lithic abundance), precipitation intensity (% silt), lake-level variability (organic carbon and nitrogen, % sand, and diatoms), and fire frequency (fossil charcoal) from a ~4700-year-long sediment archive from Laguna de Ubaque, a small sub-alpine lake on the eastern flank of the eastern Colombian Andes. Our results indicat…
Ecology and paleoenvironmental application of testate amoebae in peatlands of the high-elevation Colombian páramo
We investigated the ecology and paleoecology of testate amoebae in peatlands of the Colombian páramo to assess the use of testate amoebae as paleoenvironmental indicators. Objectives were to (1) identify environmental controls on testate amoebae, (2) develop transfer functions for paleoenvironmental inference, and (3) examine testate amoebae in a Holocene peat core and compare our findings with other proxy records. Results from 96 modern samples …
Novel responses of diatoms in neotropical mountain lakes to indigenous and post-European occupation
Enlightenment Erasure
This article addresses the curious absence of seventeenth-century buildings in traditional histories of Spanish architecture. Beginning with the Noticias de los arquitectos y la arquitectura en España, a foundational work published in 1829, the article traces the legacy of a Spanish Enlightenment myth about the seventeenth century as a time of a weak monarchy whose overly ornamental architecture can be understood as a reflection of political deca…
Humans and climate in ritualized landscapes, the case of Lake Tota in the eastern highlands of Colombia
Tota is an Andean lake located in the Altiplano of the Eastern Andes of Colombia where socio-politically hierarchical societies of the Herrera and Muisca, flourished for millennia. To them, the lake and surrounding forest were places used for diverse of activities including religious rituals. In this study we produced a multi-proxy paleolimnological reconstruction using diatoms, isotopes, and geochemistry, to try to understand the lake’s pathways…
High stability in an eastern North American temperate forest during the late Holocene
The Arts of Encounter
The Arts of Encounter: Christians, Muslims and the Power of Images in Early Modern Spain. Catherine Infante. Toronto Iberic 66. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. x + 250 pp. $70. - Volume 78 Issue 3
The environmental signal of lake sediments in Mesoamerica
Lake sediment composition depends on the environmental context where sediments are produced, transported, and deposited. Factors involved in sedimentary processes imprint specific signatures on sediments, thus providing evidence on the environmental context at the time of deposition. The interaction of the involved factors and processes, however, results in complex signals that in some instances are difficult to interpret. Here, we explore and qu…
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (7 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Geology (6 works) · Holocene (5 works) · Oceanography (5 works) · Historical Art and Architecture Studies (4 works) · Physical geography (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Biology (3 works)