An interdisciplinary study published in Nature reconstructs over 2,000 years of population history in Argentina's Uspallata ...

Long before clocks or written calendars existed, ancient farming communities faced a life-or-death problem; they needed to ...

AUSTIN, TEXAS—According to a Live Science report, James Neely of the University of Texas at Austin and his colleagues suggest that country farmers used a 205-foot-long, scorpion-shaped effigy mound in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pre-Hispanic canal funnels water from mountains to farm fields. Ari Caramanica Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time ...