Scarecrows do more than just scare birds, they’ve become powerful cultural symbols, associated with harvest, rural life, and ...
At the site known as Oued Beht, archaeologists uncovered evidence of a large farming settlement where people used advanced techniques Julia Binswanger Daily Correspondent New research is changing the ...
Learn how ancient teeth have revealed new insights about the earliest farming communities, including how they treated ...
Bio-char is gaining traction as a regenerative agriculture technique that could improve soil while sequestering carbon. But cost and education are still barriers to more widespread use on farms.
In dozens of archaeological discoveries around the world, from the once-successful reservoirs and canals of Angkor Wat in Cambodia to the deserted Viking colonies of Greenland, new evidence paints ...
People living along southeastern Europe’s Danube River around 11,500 years ago never planted a crop but still laid the foundation for the rise of farming in that region some 3,000 years later, a new ...
Matthew Williams, academic affiliate assistant professor of biology at Penn State (left), and Christian Huber, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, are part of a team that used sophisticated ...
New research is changing the way that historians understand ancient farming culture in North Africa. In a study published in the journal Antiquity, archaeologists write about the discovery of a ...