Ancient practices hold important lessons for farmers facing drying lands, but they were often more complex than modern ...

The arid Southwest has a proven irrigation model, the acequia, for water use that is local, democratic, and resilient to heat ...

However, the apparent success of this system masks an underlying fragility ... plants can tap into the trapped water and sediments and safely grow without the need for further irrigation. Critics ...

So, they set about conscripting Indigenous labor and adapting the irrigation system to their goals. Ancient beliefs, behaviors and norms—what archaeologists call culture—were fundamentally ...