Thirsty wheat needed new water management strategy in ancient China - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis

Research from the laboratory of archaeologist Xinyi Liu in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis shows that a practice of purposeful water management, or irrigation, was adopted to help cultivate wheat in northern China about 4,000 years ago.

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