AvatarM1 day agoArchaeologists uncover massive 1,000-year-old Native American fields in Northern Michigan that defy limits of farmingphys.org - Sadie HarleyWith its cold climate, short growing season, and dense forests, Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known as a challenging place for farming. But a new …
AvatarMThis Man Rebuilds the Last Inca Rope Bridge Yearlyverified_publisherAtlas Obscura - The Podcast TeamHigh above a roaring river, a man perilously hand-weaves the Q’eswachaka suspension bridge as part of a 500-year tradition. What happens when he …
AvatarMThe Mayan languages spreading across the USverified_publisherBBC Future - Juan Pablo Pérez-BurgosImmigrants from Mexico and Central America are taking their ancient languages to new territories. Three days had passed since Aroldo's father died. Aroldo was still mourning, and he couldn't even bring himself to tend the cornfields his father had left him in their community in San Juan Atitán, …
AvatarMTeaching physics to monks led to revelationscosmosmagazine.com - CosmosWe are taking a look back at stories from Cosmos Magazine in print. This article appeared in March 2020. In south-western India, inside 600-year-old …
AvatarMThe US government stole the Black Hills. Now it’s clear-cutting them.grist.org - Anya KamenetzThe Trump administration wants to fast-track logging in the Black Hills. What could go wrong? A lot, say tribes, scientists, and …
AvatarMAn Ohio Earthwork Where Thousands Once Gathered for Celestial Observations and Religious Ceremonies Is Open to the PublicSmithsonian Magazine - Kevin WilliamsFor more than 100 years, golfers at the Moundbuilders Country Club in Newark, Ohio, teed off in the shadow of one of the world’s premier Indigenous …