The invention of agriculture changed humans and the environment forever, and over several thousand years, the practice originated independently in a least a dozen different places. But why did ...

Have you ever wondered where our agricultural crops come from? And what were they like thousands of years ago, or hundreds of years ago? Our food crops today are in fact very different from the ...

Barley is one of the world's oldest cultivated plants, farmed for more than 10,000 years. Scientists have long believed it ...

The advent of agriculture was a significant turning point in the history of modern humans, beyond which humans started living a sedentary life and formed a so-called 'civilization.' However, the ...

Agricultural History Review publishes articles on all aspects of the history of agriculture, rural society and rural economy. The normal focus of the Review is the agrarian and rural history of the ...

HELENA, Mont. — For years, agricultural producers and their advocates have been calling for Montana to institute Country-of-Origin labeling standards. Those efforts are again taking center stage, as ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that underscores one long-debated theory: that agriculture arose out of moments of surplus, when environmental conditions were improving, and populations lived in ...