[Terrapreta] Pottery Shards

[Michael Bailes]

First I've heard of it lou
Nice lateral thinking!

Could the shards be used to protect the soil, with fine carbon, from heavy
rain and run-off?
For soil aeration?
For mulch of young plants?
For some trace element in the pottery?
Does the porous structure provide a good home for bacteria or  trap
fertiliser?
Some sort of catalyst to the TP process?
To get rid of rubbish?
Like Russians, who throw their glasses into the fireplace, maybe Indians
smashed their dinner plates at the end of a meal? (A Greek influence?)

Your guess is as good as any, until someone invents a time machine..

Here is a research article on it
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=...pt=sci_arttext<http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0044-59672004000200004&script=sci_arttext>
It might be more comprehensible in the original Portuguese which I note you
speak.(There are a couple of words he uses I don't understand)
There are also many links to other articles (Some in Portuguese) please let
us know if you discover anything?
m
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On 17/05/07, lou gold <lou.gold at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to Terra Preta and I'm not a soils scientist,
> just a tree-hugger who thinks that TP might be the
> solution that we've been looking for.
>
> I have been intrigued by the mystery of the pottery chards
> found in the ADE soils. Yesterday, I discussed this with
> some mushroom experts. Our conversation ended up
> speculating that pottery shards might have been used
> to spread applications of fungi. My friends said that
> baked clay would be an excellent medium for incubating
> mycelia. We speculated that the Amazonian Indians might
> have laid out pottery shards in particularly fertile areas
> in the forest where fungi were growing. Then they
> might have used these "inoculated" pieces of clay to
> "spore bomb" the fields in order to improve productivity.
>
> Has this possible scenario been discussed or investigated?
>
> Lou Gold
>
> My blogs:
> (English) http://lougold.blogspot.com/
> (Portuguese) http://visionshare-pt.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
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