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[https://agnetwest.com/american-agriculture-history-minute-ethnicity-early-agriculture/ by AgNET west RADIO NETWORK 1/11/24] | [https://agnetwest.com/american-agriculture-history-minute-ethnicity-early-agriculture/ by AgNET west RADIO NETWORK 1/11/24] | ||
Ethnicity made a difference in early American agriculture. German immigrants brought different practices and traditions to the New World than English, Scottish, or Irish farmers, for example. Each simply carried forward practices from their homeland, but with a lot more land to work with and fertile soil. | Ethnicity made a difference in early American agriculture. German immigrants brought different practices and traditions to the New World than English, Scottish, or Irish farmers, for example. Each simply carried forward practices from their homeland, but with a lot more land to work with and fertile soil. | ||
=====Early Agriculture Nearly Tanked Ancient Europe’s Population===== | |||
[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-agriculture-nearly-tanked-ancient-europes-population-437796/ by Colin Schultz 2/10/13 Smithsonian magazine] | |||
The rise of agriculture changed the world. And we don’t just mean the human world. At its onset, long before the Green Revolution paved the way for vastly improved yields, people were notoriously bad at using the land. To produce our food we used to cut down a staggering number of trees. Deforestation in the western world, driven by land clearing for farming, actually peaked hundreds or thousands of years ago. And, without things like fertilizer or irrigation, or the massive intertwined agricultural system we have today, local shocks—a fire, a drought, a flood—could cut vital food supplies for years. | |||
=====The history of human-induced soil erosion: Geomorphic legacies, early descriptions and research, and the development of soil conservation—A global synopsis===== | |||
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169555X1300370X by Markus Dotterweich 1/11/13 ScienceDirect] | |||
This paper presents a global synopsis about the geomorphic evidence of soil erosion in humid and semihumid areas since the beginning of agriculture. Historical documents, starting from ancient records to data from the mid-twentieth century and numerous literature reviews form an extensive assortment of examples that show how soil erosion has been perceived previously by scholars, land surveyors, farmers, land owners, researchers, and policy makers. | |||
=====History of Agriculture: A Timeline===== | |||
[https://www.crestcapital.com/tax/history_of_agriculture by Resource Light] | |||
Agriculture, also known as farming, is the production of food, fiber, animal feed and other goods by harvesting plants and animals. Agriculture is now practiced throughout the world and is an essential part of human civilization and its history dates back thousands of years. Here's a timeline of the history of agriculture: | |||
=====Period 1: Domestication, Early Farming, and Widespread Impacts (10,000 BP - 4,000 BP)===== | |||
[https://courses.ems.psu.edu/geog3/node/1139 by InTeGrate] | |||
We will start our historical summary of environment-food systems by describing domestication and early farming (10,000 BP – 4,000 BP). Widespread environmental and social impacts occurred during this period. New agricultural ecosystems were created and spread along with the use of domesticated plants and animals. These agroecosystems contained distinctive species and populations of plants and animals including domesticates, as well as characteristic insects, mammals, soil biota, and uncultivated plants (such as weeds). | |||
=====Early Agriculture in the Maya Lowlands===== | |||
[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/latin-american-antiquity/article/abs/early-agriculture-in-the-maya-lowlands/9D0A60F2A72D4AE6F4717269174458A0 by Mary D. Pohl 20/1/17 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS] | |||
Wetland research in northern Belize provides the earliest evidence for development of agriculture in the Maya Lowlands. Pollen data confirm the introduction of maize and manioc before 3000 B.C. Dramatic deforestation, beginning ca. 2500 B.C. and intensifying in wetland environments ca. 1500-1300 B.C., marks an expansion of agriculture, which occurred in the context of a mixed foraging economy. | |||
