Maya farmers and researchers explain milpa farming. In my book, "Rooting in a Useless Land: Ancient Farmers, ... The effort to revive ancient raised field agriculture collapsed.

In dozens of archaeological discoveries around the world, from the once-successful reservoirs and canals of Angkor Wat in ...

The Tiwanaku civilization thrived high in the Andes Mountains long before the Inca Empire started. Located near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the millennia-old city of Tiwanaku was built almost 13,000 ...

Traditional Andean agriculture in South America incorporates a diverse range of ancient cultivation techniques. One in particular has a complicated history of attracting revival efforts. In the 1980s, ...

The Amazon region of South America, the largest tropical rainforest and river basin on Earth, is disappearing at a rate of around 800,000 hectares a year, but a new study finds one possible ...

BOULDER, Colo. – Anthropologists from the University of Colorado have uncovered the first and only site of ancient, large-scale manioc cultivation in Central America.Manioc, a tuber also know… ...

The raised-field farmers limited fires, and this helped them conserve soil nutrients and organic matter and preserve soil structure. "We used radiocarbon dating to establish the age of the raised ...

LONDON (Alliance News) - Mayan Energy Ltd said Friday that it has completed its plan to acidise and commingle its Morris #1 well in south Texas. The previously announced plans are part of Mayan's ...

The effort to revive ancient raised field agriculture collapsed. An aerial photograph shows pre-Columbian raised fields in Bolivia. Umberto Lombardo, University of Bern, Switzerland , CC BY-NC ...