Maya farmers and researchers explain milpa farming. In my book, "Rooting in a Useless Land: Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatán," I trace the deep history of ...

NEW ORLEANS — Hidden beneath the forests of Mexico’s Campeche state lies an archaeological revelation: where scientists once ...

In my book, “Rooting in a Useless Land: Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatán,” I trace the deep history of the Maya milpa.

Farmers in Ghana coped with severe droughts from 1450 to 1650 by planting indigenous African grains, like drought-tolerant ...

Find out which foods the ancient Maya grew and the importance of their calendars in farming with this year 3/4 BBC Bitesize primary history guide.

Toward the end of the Classic Maya period, from around A.D. 600 to 900, local political authorities lived among many farming communities, Estrada-Belli says. Linked in ...

Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín continues his ongoing exploration of the knot and its capacity for metaphor at Elizabeth Xi Bauer ...

An Ancient Maya Practice Could Be the Key to Growing Vegetables on Mars ... a technique perfected by Maya farmers centuries ago that involves growing multiple plants in close proximity to one another.

The knowledge of milpa farming empowered many rural farmers to navigate climate changes during the notorious Maya Collapse - two centuries of political disintegration and urban depopulation between ...

Thousand-year-old DNA from Chichén Itzá offers eye-opening details of the religious rituals of ancient Maya. By Freda Kreier In the spring of 1967, workers building a small airport behind ...

Maya farmers and researchers explain milpa farming. In my book , “Rooting in a Useless Land: Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatán,” I trace the deep history ...