The Hani people began building terraces as part of farming, but their works turned ... it as one of the seven forms of arable lands in ancient China. Stretching along the southern banks of the ...

The ancient city of Petra ... Researchers say extensive terrace farming and dam construction in an agricultural suburb north of Petra began about 2,000 years ago — sometime before the Romans ...

Xiatang is the southernmost of the 24 sites associated with the Shangshan culture. Echoing with Lyu's research, at Xiatang, ...

Terrace farming is an ancient practice, and one that we are continually finding new evidence of in long-gone civilizations. As recently as 2013, researchers found that terrace farming was used ...

"I have never expected that our terraced fields could become an important kind of agricultural heritage in the world. Nowadays, many Internet users have come to know about them," said Liu Zhikai ...

University of Cincinnati. (2013, January 2). Terrace farming unearthed at ancient desert city of Petra. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 01 ...

A study suggests that people in ancient China started farming carp around 6200 BCE. Fish farms play an important role in supplying the modern world’s massive demand for seafood—about half the ...