Learning from the Past to Achieve the Future...an important part of a Type I future, IMHO.
http://magazine-directory.com/Archaeology.htmARCHAEOLOGY A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America
Volume 61 Number 4, July/August 2008
Amazonian Harvest: Can prehistoric farming methods lead us to a sustainable future?by Mara Hvistendahl
"If we were to apply [pre-Columbian] techniques, it would be much better for the world...."
"This is like finding potsherds," he says. The leaf belongs to the cacao tree, which grows throughout this part of the country, the Beni, in circular patches called forest islands--telltale signs, he believes, of early settlement.
Erickson has worked in Bolivia and Peru for three decades, and he hopes his research will bring the lessons of the past to bear on the present, perhaps guiding sustainable agriculture here and across the globe. He is part of a growing group of archaeologists who are engaging and helping shape the communities in which they work, but a few decades ago, other scholars would have thought him crazy.
"He sees forest islands supplemented with raised fields of corn, tobacco, beans, and pumpkin--an agricultural cornucopia that will enrich the earth for future generations."
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Oh, what a nut!
This article also mentions
Biochar and
Amazonian Dark Earths, Terra Pretta.
>see also:
http://www.scienceagogo.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=26941#Post26941The book,
1491, explains what was going on here in the Western Hemisphere, for which these folks are now finding evidence.
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