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

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Lou,

You gotta know the answer to this question.   Ask Robert Klein to establish this "corn" hypothesis for you.  It's his hypothesis.  I think he went right to theory, when corn pollen was found on the South American continent recently.

Regards,

SKB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: lou gold<mailto:lou.gold at gmail.com> 
  To: Michael Bailes<mailto:michaelangelica at gmail.com> 
  Cc: terrapreta<mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 7:22 AM
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Fwd: Google Alert - "terra preta "


   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<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<mailto: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>
    http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/<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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