Extensive terracing was an important component of the water and agricultural management regime of Nabatean Petra.
We helicoptered in, set up a base camp, and spent the next nine days slowly uncovering the city's remains large plazas, geometric mounds, irrigation systems, extensive terracing.
The site was much deteriorated and overgrown with forest, but Savoy uncovered remains there of some 300 Inca houses and 50 or more other buildings, as well as extensive terraces, proving that Espíritu Pampa was a much larger settlement.
Cultivation is characterized by the diversity of crops, intensive land use, extensive terracing, irrigation, the cultivation of zaisheng dao ("rebirth" rice), and the special methods of soil culture, fertilization, composting, and crop rotation.
The results enable to put to test current paradigms regarding the relation between extensive terracing operations and settlement oscillations and the antiquity of the terrace phenomenon in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The mountainous foothills of Yunnan Province required extensive terracing work in order for rice paddy cultivation systems to become successful in this area.
Some of the stones used in the construction of the town were more than 350 tons, which had to be rolled up and down towering mountains in order to build the extensive terracing and irrigation systems in the Urubamba Valley.
"A high percentage of the land is unsuitable for human settlement as risks of flooding and landslides are high and are further aggravated by the congestion and extensive terracing of the hills," the U.N. report said.
And thanks to the extensive roof terrace at Nottingham restaurant Saltwater, this is the choice available to Disconnected's fans at this one-off celebration of summer.
This work presents the results of a multi-approach study of the extensive highest terrace (Qt1) of the Alcanadre River system (Ebro Basin, Spain).
