PLOS One presents evidence that communities in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing maize with seabird guano by at least ...

New research assisted by drone technology has added more details and understanding of what was already known to be a series of ancient farming fields in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The study was led ...

Plants are among the most intrepid explorers on Earth. Roughly 460 million years ago, the first plants started leaving lakes and rivers and appeared on land. At that time, the surface of Earth was ...

Archeologists studying a forested area in northern Michigan say they've uncovered what is likely the largest intact remains of an ancient Native American agricultural site in the eastern half of the ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a rare “effigy mound” over 205 feet long, shaped like a scorpion. This mound was deliberately built by ancient farmers to track the summer and winter solstices ...

There is a place, tucked into the mountains and hills near the border between the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Puebla, where local campesinos continue to practice an ancestral tradition. They are salt ...

A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising information about early British history.

Learn how ancient DNA reveals migrant women helped Europe’s hunter-gatherers adopt farming thousands of years later than the rest of the continent.

Modern irrigation systems have taken over old-world practices in many areas, but in Colorado's San Luis Valley, the tradition of acequia waterways is supporting communities and the environment. These ...