[Terrapreta] indigenous practices

[Richard Haard]

Thank you Dr Steiner for your clarification.  The point I was  
attempting to make is these individuals were managing their soils and  
not as a circumstance of waste disposal.

Connection to traditional knowledge of people who left us TP  
(primitive) is my own assumptions made after discussions with  
individual indigenous acquaintances from Alaska and British Columbia  
who can cite historically accurate anecdotes from events in same time  
frame or older than 'first contact' with Europeans in Amazon.

Thinking about this statement of mine are there other reasons to  
define Terra Preta primitive simply because of it's antiquity?

Thanks

Rich Haard


On May 14, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Yet this is present day - how can you presume to know the motive of  
> people who
>> are long gone other that what their heirs are doing today?
>
> I hope to understand the question right and the question is related  
> to my work cited. I did not presume to know the motive and did not  
> presume to know that the soil created in this settlement is Terra  
> Preta. But if the soil looks like Terra Preta it is worth to take a  
> closer look on its creation. If the soil has properties as Terra  
> Preta I would call it Terra Preta Nova.
>
> Christoph
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