A farmer paddles to his fields on an artificial island among canals, part of an ancient Aztec system known as chinampas, in 2021. AP Photo /Marco Ugarte In dozens of archaeological discoveries around ...

Long before clocks or written calendars existed, ancient farming communities faced a life-or-death problem; they needed to know when seasons would shift. The solution came from above. Civilizations ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural settlements, marking one of the greatest transformations in human history. This ...

Researchers in Israel led by Tel Aviv University have uncovered commercial-scale viticulture in ancient Byzantine and Early Islamic settlements dated to the 4th to the 9th centuries. In a paper, ...

Over 10,000 years ago, ancient human settlers began the construction of around 4,700 artificial forest islands in ancient Amazonia, according to the results of a recently-published paper.

Surrounded by the waters of the Strait of Sicily in the far south of Italy, the island of Pantelleria is made up of 32 square miles of black volcanic rocks with no source of freshwater other than the ...

University of Cincinnati researchers found evidence of sustainable agriculture and forestry spanning a millennia in one ancient Maya city. UC researchers used genetic and pollen analyses to provide ...

Nick Cuchetti, a farmer and board secretary of Missouri Organic Association, holds biochar at Oaklee Rose Farm in Luebbering, Missouri. Biochar is an organic waste material that can help improve soil ...

A farming society dating back thousands of years was discovered in Morocco, in an archaeological site that spent many years unexplored. The archaeological site of Oued Beht in Morocco was first ...

Soil bacteria in ancient lama-bordo fields reveal bacteria capable of fertilizing crops and transforming sustainable rural agriculture.

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