[Terrapreta] Fwd: Google Alert - "terra preta "

[lou gold]

 I'm wondering if anyone has established whether or not corn was cultivated
by the Terra Preta cultures of central Amazonia?

The BBC documentary on Eldorado
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2809044795781727003&q=amazon+bbc&total=139&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=6
clearly cites evidence that maize was cultivated in the the raised mound
cultures in the Beni region of Bolivia  in "upper"  Amazonia.



On 9/6/07, Michael Bailes <michaelangelica at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> People are being very imaginative about the historical roots of Terra
> preta.
> This article makes  some fanciful assumptions.
> MA
>
>  *"terra preta
> *
>
>  Glopbal Corn Culture<http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2007/09/glopbal-corn-culture.html>
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> http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/
>  By arclein(arclein)
> I suspect that, while *terra preta* soil manufacturing was the dominant
> culture in the Amazon, that there is no reason for it to be a continuously
> applied system in most soils. After all we know that a season's corn
> production will *...*
>  Global Warming - http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/
> <http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/>
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