[Terrapreta] A footnote in TP history

[Michael Bailes]

  The men charged with the 2005 killing of University of Vermont
anthropology professor James Petersen in the Amazon rainforest were
sentenced Tuesday to nearly 30 years in prison, close to the maximum under
Brazilian law.

Petersen, who had been doing pioneering research on advanced civilizations
in the Amazon rainforest and had become a popular figure in the region, was
shot and killed on August 13, 2005 during a robbery of a restaurant near
Iranduba, a small town in the Brazilian Amazon. The two gunmen were
apprehended within 24 hours, while their two accomplices were captured after
a three week-manhunt through the rainforest.

Peterson's Work in the Amazon

Peterson gained fame for his archeological work in the Central Amazon.
Together with a handful of other researchers, Peterson collected evidence of
sophisticated societies in the Amazon rainforest. These civilizations built
extensive road networks, practiced large-scale agriculture, and produced
elaborate pottery, but left little trace after they were wiped out by
European disease in the sixteenth century.



JAMES PETERSEN (1954 - 2005)  One of the few remnants left behind by these
populations, is their nutrient-rich soil, known locally as *terra preta*.

More here
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0712-petersen.html

-- 
Michael B
"You can fix all the world's problems in a garden. . . .
Most people don't know that"
FROM
http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-content/permaculture.swf
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