ancient agriculture
Prehistoric crop growing
Ancient agriculture refers to farming practices developed by early civilizations, from the first domestication of plants and animals roughly 10,000 years ago through classical antiquity.
The term encompasses techniques like irrigation, crop rotation, and animal husbandry that emerged independently across Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and the Americas.
Ancient agriculture transformed human societies from nomadic hunter-gatherers into settled communities.
- granaryBuilding for storing cereals
- barleyGrain for malt
- soil fertilityEarth's crop-growing potential
- wheatCereal crop for flour
- hoeWeeding and tilling implement
harvest festivals · irrigation systems · plow · domestication · communal farming · sickle · hand tools · beast of burden · millet · seed drill · terracing · fallow fields · growing season · shaduf · barter systems · land inheritance · irrigation channels · rice
- botany historyCarl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, herbarium, herbaria, botanical gardens
- archaeobotanyflotation, ancient crops, microfossils, ancient grains, cereal grains
ancient agricultureindustrial agriculture
Large-scale mechanized farming
mechanized farming · factory farming · vertical farming · hydroponics
ancient agricultureagribusiness
Commercial farming sector
corporate farming · commercial agriculture · plantation agriculture