[Terrapreta] Early Terra Preta Production

[Gerald Van Koeverden]

  Nobody would bother hiring a soil forensics scientist who has to  
depend on finding perfect specimens encased in ceramics or preserved  
in amber in order to make some deductions...

On 8-Jan-08, at 7:13 PM, Greg and April wrote:

> A fundamental problem with this, is the fact that original TP  
> sample is
> hundreds ( perhaps a couple of thousand ) years old, and is going  
> to be
> weathered to the Nth degree.
>
> We can make some base line estimates, but, unless a piece of char  
> is found
> encased in a sample of pottery we may never really know.
>
> Greg H.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "AJH" <list at sylva.icuklive.co.uk>
> To: "terra pretta group" <terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 16:26
> Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Early Terra Preta Production
>
>
>> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:00:53 -0800 (PST), Robert Klein wrote:
>>
>>> does someone have good samples of terra preta?.
>>
>> This seems rather fundamental, without being able to analyse the
>> original how can we mimic it?
>>
>> AJH
>>
>>
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