Public Release: 21-Aug-2017
'Lost city' used 500 years of soil erosion to benefit crop farming
Researchers at the University of York working on a 700-year old abandoned agricultural site in Tanzania have shown that soil erosion benefited farming practices for some 500 years.
The study, published in Quaternary Research, shows that historical practices of capturing soils that were eroded from the hillside could be valuable to modern day farming techniques.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/uoy-cu082117.php