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

[Brian Hans]

http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2003doc.nsf/43bb6130e5e86e5fc12569fa005d004c/f70b80eb7cd25728c1256d57003e5f0c/$FILE/JT00147699.PDF
   
  Some light botanical reading on corn. 
   
  A few 'corn off topic' notes;
   
  Notice where they talk about perennial relation to corn. I cannot believe someone hasnt been able to cross that perennial line with corn, seeing how much work is done on corn itself. My guess is that type of research is scratched for future economic reasons by the big guys. Imagine the world if corn was a perennial... 
   
  I studied botanical taxonomy @ UWMadison and Iltis is convinced of the 'teosinte' theory and he is a mountain of a man @ UWMadison, so who am I to argue. 

  Notice how important corn really is to the human diet. It makes alot of sense that we would try to make ethanol with it...just as anyone plays with their food they are swimming in. 
   
  Putting yourself into the shoes of pre-modern man, every part of the crop would have been utilized. Im curious as to how they handled the stover. If 'terra preta man' infact had corn stover...it seems plausable that stover was apart of the making of char. Remember that stover is a good 'carbon crop' and certainly it was used in ancient times as such. 
   
  Brian Hans

lou gold <lou.gold at gmail.com> wrote:
  Well, in the Beni region they found a tribe that still had the old words for maize (and other plants).  I'm wondering if there is similar (or other) evidence of corn from central Amazonia, or if it's just an hypothesis?  

Perhaps Robert can answer here?


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