New AHRC grant to study terraces

TerraSAgE: Terraces as Sustainable Agricultural Environments is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) from 2020 - 2022.

Across the world terraced landscapes have been created to produce diverse crops, to improve soils and to manage water resources - historically, they have been critical in many areas for dry-land agriculture. Despite this widespread occurrence, the history of agricultural terraces has remained poorly understood, largely due to problems in dating their construction, modification and use. Using dating, geoarchaeological techniques, including chemical and micromorphological analysis, and broader landscape survey, this study will revolutionise understanding of past terrace systems and their landscapes - and reveal and evaluate the societal, economic and environmental strategies that underpinned their construction, evolution and abandonment.

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