[Terrapreta] Earthen Kilns Conjecture

[Kurt Treutlein]

Jim Joyner wrote:
>  Hey Sean,
>
>  Is it not possible that, on the forested "islands" or other forests,
>  that Amazonians simply razed the forests by burning them completely
>  down (don't have to deal with all that weight, moving, digging and
>  burying), then added to the ashes char from crop waste feed stocks
>  and maybe other OM from somewhere else (brought in lots of clay
>  pots?), and then grew crops? For the raised areas that apparently
>  were created by making mounds, there would have been no need to get
>  the trees out of the way. They might have just brought in the char
>  and other amendments.
>
>  Much easier way to do it given a lack of available technology
>  (chainsaws, bulldozers and the like). Just a thought.
>
>  Jim
>
This is how farmers do it today, using chainsaws and bull dozers and 
artificial fertilizers and the like.

Kurt
who is sick and tired of seeing the waste happening