Wednesday, March 29, 2006

"Gift from the Past"

I have a friend taking a class about South American indigenous peoples and she told me something interesting today...

The Amazon soil is well-known for its infertility. However, there are dark splotches all over that are extremely fertile. Archeologists think that the Ancient Indians may have found a method with which they transformed the nutrient-poor soil into extremely productive soil. I wanted to find out more about it, so I googled it and found an article from the San Francisco Chronicle that covers the news well...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/09/MNGPVAMDQ61.DTL

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