Ancient underwater potato garden uncovered in Canada

in #archeology8 years ago

This harvest came 3,000 years too late. Hundreds of blackened potatoes were pulled out of the ground at a prehistoric garden in British Columbia, Canada.  Dating back to 3,800 years before the present, the garden was once  underwater, in an ecologically rich wetland. And it shows signs of  sophisticated engineering techniques used to control the flow of water  to more efficiently grow wild wapato tubers, also known as Indian potatoes

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