Researcher examines Atacama Desert farm fields abandoned 500 years ago
Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 07:00
in Earth & Climate
High in the Atacama Desert, around 10,000 feet, anyone with a computer and Google Earth can look at the fields around Turi, Chile and see small neatly laid out fields, terraced and lined with rocks. No crops are growing there now, but it looks as though the farmers laid down their stone hoes and just walked away.