An interdisciplinary research project on the development of the earliest forms of agriculture shows that early farming societies began to integrate new cereal varieties into their range of crops ...

Elmhurst History Museum’s newest exhibit, Acre by Acre: Our Farming Heritage, examines the roots put down by pioneering families in the west suburbs between about 1850 and 1950. Over those hundred ...

As ancient communities shifted from foraging to farming, the forces driving this dramatic change weren’t always what many once believed. For decades, archaeologists and historians pointed to climate ...

An interdisciplinary research project on the development of the earliest forms of agriculture shows that early farming societies began to integrate new cereal varieties into their range of crops ...