The Seeds of Middle Eastern Culture project aims to empower young people and communities to control their own food systems by growing food locally, using eco-friendly methods and eating foods that are important to their own culture.
New research brings together 7,000 years of history in South Arabia to show how ancient pastoralists changed placement and construction of monuments over time in the face of environmental and cultural forces.
In a study published today (May 28, 2025) in PLOS One, an international team of archaeologists documents how monuments changed as the climate transitioned from a humid environment to, eventually, an arid desert.