Agriculture in Ancient RomeThe great majority of the people ruled by Rome were engaged in agriculture. Introduction Roman Agriculture describes the...
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Agriculture in Ancient GreeceAgriculture was the foundation of the Ancient Greek economy. Nearly 80% of the population was involved in this activity.[1] Agricultural...
Picturing the Farms of Ohio and Pennsylvania in the Late 18th CenturyFor a small price, Ferdinand Brader would draw a bird’s-eye view of someone’s homestead. When Ferdinand A....
Food in the Roman WorldWhat the Romans ate and how. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction The ancient Mediterranean diet revolved around four...
Following a New Trail of Crumbs to Agriculture’s OriginsArchaeologists have found tiny pieces of ancient bread from hunter-gatherers that predate agriculture by about 4,000 years....
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA DiscriminationThe history of discrimination by the United States Department of Agriculture and the class action lawsuits by...
Ancient Agriculture in the Fertile CrescentThe ancient Near East, and the Fertile Crescent in particular, is generally seen as the birthplace of...
Softer, Processed Foods Changed the Way Ancient Humans SpokeConsidering language from a biological perspective led researchers to the idea that new food processing technologies affected...
Friedrich Haberlandt’s Failed Vision: Soy in European Food Cultures, 1873–1945The “age of extremes” from 1914 to 1945 created renewed demand for cheap supplies of protein. One...
How We Discovered That Europeans Used Cattle 8,000 Years AgoThe use of animals for their renewable products greatly increased human capabilities in prehistory. The use of...
Baltic Hunter-Gatherer Adoption of AgricultureAncient DNA analyses show that – unlike elsewhere in Europe – farmers from the Near East did...
The Midwest Farmers Movement That Challenged Gilded Age CapitalismIn the 19th century, the Grange was an agricultural brotherhood that sought to foster mutual self-reliance and...
Droughts and Agricultural Scarcity before Independence in the Viceroyalty of New Granada, 1800–1810The crisis affected all kind of people: whites, mestizos, and indigenous people; herders, large cattle owners, and...
Agricultural Markets and the Great DepressionEighty years ago, the publication of John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath shocked the world with...
The Harvester Vase of Hagia Triada: An Eye into Ancient Minoan AgricultureHarvester Vase from Hagia Triada, c. 1550-1500 B.C.E., black steatite, diameter 4.5 inches (Archaeological Museum of Heraklion)...