3,800 Years Old Underwater Potato Garden Unearthed

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Everybody is in good sync to one another, because they are all wired through the same bounds of the latest technology. Everybody thinks that these inventions are ground breaking and would not have been possible without the 'new generation thinking', but a latest discovery proves that the technologies used today for harvesting might be a little outdated.

A complete paradox to most of the thinking, of today's world, a pre-historic garden was discovered in Canada's British Columbia. Numerous blackened potatoes were found in this, apparently, underwater garden. This ecologically rich wetland is filled with extremely sophisticated technologies that would allow the perfect harvest of wapato tubers, or what is colloquially known as the Indian potatoes, revealed Live Science.

The garden dates back to 3,800 years prior to its current discovery. This site has been waterlogged for ages, which made it possible for such preservation, in almost a pristine condition, of the wooden tools or even plants, which would have disintegrated through time, otherwise. The most outrageously, interesting part is that, although the tubers have turned black or dark brown through time, the starch in each of them has been preserved.

According to Business Standard, this particular garden had several rocks laid across the land, making the archaeologists to believe that it was a man-made garden. The tubers can grow in the farthest depths of the soil, but the uniformly laid rocks would restrict as to how deep the roots would penetrate in the ground.

Archaeologists, who were all led by Tanja Hoffmann of the Katzie Development Limited Partnership and Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, were behind the incredible discovery. Along with this, they were even able to find some of the dry land, close to this harvest area, which had wooden tools, which were used to dig yup the plants and help the farmers with their harvest.