3800 year old potato garden excavation

Archaeologists have found an Indian potato-looking garden dating to about 3,800 years old, still with stone fences and wood-rolling digging tools.

A 3,800-year-old sweet potato garden was recently found in British Columbia (near Vancouver, Canada), helping to uncover many things about the ancestral hunting and cultivation practices.

According to the Daily Mail, this is an Indian potato garden . These potatoes are quite small in size and are easy to process.

Potatoes are found in the garden.

Around the garden, archaeologists have discovered many pebbles, proving that the owner of the garden knew how to arrange the stones intentionally to protect his agricultural products. In particular, the owner of the garden knows how to use water to irrigate his potato beds.

Around the garden, archaeologists have discovered many pebbles.

The potato garden dates back to 3,800 years, larger than the date of Babylon Hanging Gardens - one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
In addition, archaeologists also found traces of digging tools with wooden lumber left in the garden.

Brent Elliott, a historian of the Royal Horticultural Society, said: "This may be the oldest garden structure in the world. Earlier, archaeologists found a wheat plot dating from 5,000. in BC in northern Iraq, however, it was considered an agricultural activity, not gardening. "

Traces of excavated items with wooden handles are found in the garden.

Through what has been found, scientists concluded: the ancestral gardening activities of this period were not much different from the current farming techniques.