[Terrapreta] The Reason for Pottery Shards in Terra Preta. Re: Char and compost ( was Char made made under pressurized conditions? )

[Tom Miles]

For a start try searching the Terra Preta Website:

http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/search/node/pottery

http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/search/node/amazon

You'll find maps http://www.gerhardbechtold.com/TP/gbtp.php?vers=2

http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/soilsciencepa

http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/dedvanwoods

etc.

 

No popcorn provided.

 

Tom

 

 

From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org
[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Greg and April
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 6:20 PM
To: lou gold
Cc: Terra Preta
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] The Reason for Pottery Shards in Terra Preta. Re:
Char and compost ( was Char made made under pressurized conditions? )

 

I don't know that the pictures showing the pit the are from Bolivian flood
plains - in deed, it's reported that they are of Terra Preta in the Amazon. 

 

Consider that in the show " The Secret of El Dorado ", they mark known Terra
Preta sites ( in the Amazon ), along all the rivers, *** which do flood ***
during the rainy season.

 

While this may be natural work of nature, I find it very interesting that in
the show most ( if not all ) of the sites that they mark, are right along
the river - in areas I presume to be most susceptible to flooding.

 

It would be very interesting ( and perhaps more than a little educational ),
to see Terra Preta sites marked on a short scale topographic maps.    Such
should give indication of terrain build up or not.

 

Greg H.

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: lou gold <mailto:lou.gold at gmail.com>  

To: Greg <mailto:gregandapril at earthlink.net>  and April 

Cc: Terra Preta <mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>  

Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 18:40

Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] The Reason for Pottery Shards in Terra Preta. Re:
Char and compost ( was Char made made under pressurized conditions? )

 

Greg,

Do we know if the terra preta sites found in the central Amazon also reveal
a layering of pottery and soil?  The need to build up mounds or islands was
in the Bolivian flood plain. The layering architecture might have designed
to prevent fast erosion -- a layer of waste covered by a layer of pottery.

In the central Amazon sites I don't believe there would have been a need for
"mounds." There's plenty of non-flooding "upland." If the layering is not
found in this terrain, it would strongly suggest that it was
"architectural", helping the building of stable mounds in the flood plain.

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