As agriculture expanded from the Carolinas into Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, early Southern farmers grew peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans. However, finding a profitable market for these ...

The theories are, literally, all over the map. “The history has been screwed up from the very outset,” says Paris, who places the blame on generations of taxonomists, stretching back to the ...

Scientists uncovered ancient avocado remains in a Honduran cave, offering genetic clues that could protect the crop from ...

But how exactly this shift happened across regions like Anatolia and the Aegean has long been debated. Did early farmers move in and bring agriculture with them? Or did local hunter-gatherers adopt ...

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, early settlers who decided to settle in the lands of Israel faced a huge challenge: how to farm in conditions of sweltering heat and minimal rainfall. The ...

Washinawatok is a member of the Menominee tribe and a graduate student assisting in an archeological dig through the tribe’s ...

The origin of red beans — also called adzuki — has been murky. A new study says Japan is where it all started.

The Crop Exchange That Built American Farming. In this edition of the American Agriculture History Minute, Mark Oppold revisits a ...

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ...