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re: Was the Amazon Rainforest Man-Made??
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:14 am to BoarEd
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:14 am to BoarEd
Lord have mercy.
This effect was brought about by the same methods used by every other agrarian society on earth, slash and burn. Its hardly an eyebrow raiser that humans living in a forest for as long as 13,000 years would have an effect upon it.
Meso Americans are fully modern humans with the same intelligence as any other groups. They made the most use of the resources they had.
However, they did not have the resources to "build up" the soil, especially over such a vast expanse of land. They also did not have the knowledge to rotate crops to maintain fertility of the land.
So, they employed the slash and burn method. That means to cut down and burn an area and plant the crops you need. Then, when the fertile soil of one area is depleted, it's abandoned for another area and the process repeats. The depleted area sits fallow until nature restores it. This is certainly not the definition of gardening.
The first statement is not proof of the second statement.
OMG, no.
On that note I'm turning in but I've enjoyed our repartee.
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the general idea that humans have had a major impact on the Amazon rainforest for thousands of years, adapting its ecology to their needs, has been around for a few decades,
This effect was brought about by the same methods used by every other agrarian society on earth, slash and burn. Its hardly an eyebrow raiser that humans living in a forest for as long as 13,000 years would have an effect upon it.
Meso Americans are fully modern humans with the same intelligence as any other groups. They made the most use of the resources they had.
However, they did not have the resources to "build up" the soil, especially over such a vast expanse of land. They also did not have the knowledge to rotate crops to maintain fertility of the land.
So, they employed the slash and burn method. That means to cut down and burn an area and plant the crops you need. Then, when the fertile soil of one area is depleted, it's abandoned for another area and the process repeats. The depleted area sits fallow until nature restores it. This is certainly not the definition of gardening.
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More than half the total number of trees in the Amazon River Basin come from just 1% of the total number of species.
In other words, the entire forest was domesticated.
The first statement is not proof of the second statement.
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50,000,000 people lived there.
OMG, no.
On that note I'm turning in but I've enjoyed our repartee.
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Posted on 1/17/18 at 10:15 am to Kentucker
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The first statement is not proof of the second statement.
It put the likelihood of the entire thing being domesticated greater than it not being so. That's according to the people who conducted the survey and carefully cateloged damn near every single tree in the rainforest.
And yeah, they built the soil up. Main soil amendment used was biochar. They also used bonemeal.
You can say no all you like, but you're wrong.
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