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What ancient farmers can really teach us about adapting to climate change – and how political power influences success or failure

  • Written by Chelsea Fisher, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of South Carolina
imageA farmer paddles to his fields on an artificial island among canals, part of an ancient Aztec system known as chinampas, in 2021. AP Photo /Marco Ugarte

In dozens of archaeological discoveries around the world, from the once-successful reservoirs and canals of Angkor Wat in Cambodia to the deserted Viking colonies of Greenland, new evidence paints...

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