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 raised field agriculture provided pre-Columbian farmers with better drainage, soil aeration, moisture retention during the dry season, ...

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 ...

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 ...