Terrace soils are distinctive features of the agricultural landscape in Europe. Due to their
historical and aesthetic significance, they are a resource for agriculture and tourism …

Improving land productivity is essential to meet increasing food and forage demands in
hillside and mountain communities. Tens of millions of smallholder terrace farmers in Asia …

An improved understanding of present-day climate variability and change relies on high-
quality data sets from the past 2 millennia. Global efforts to model regional climate modes …

How will archaeology contribute to agricultural sustainability? To address that question, this
overview reflects on the diverse and complementary ways that archaeology has advanced …

The need to reconcile food production, ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation
has spurred the search for more sustainable ways of farming. Archaeology offers examples …

Soils form the foundation for agriculture and are changed by farming through active
management and unintentionally. Soil change from agriculture ranges from wholesale …

Attention to human–environment relationships in the central Andes has a long history.
Although the area is not a neat microcosm of the globe, wholly representative of worldwide …

Abstract In southern Peru near Lake Titicaca, at the Colla hillfort town of Ayawiri,
archaeological data indicate that the construction of a large terrace complex and the …

It has been argued that we have now entered the Anthropocene, a proposed epoch in which
humans are having a dominant impact on the Earth system. While some geologists have …

This study evaluated the soil properties of pre-Hispanic stone-walled terraces by comparing
soil quality along terraced catenas in the Paca Valley, a tributary of the Mantaro Valley, Peru …