JOURNAL ARTICLE

Indigenous people make 'dark earth'.

  • Published In: Science News, 2023, v. 203, n. 2. P. 10 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Kreier, Freda 3 of 3

Abstract

At the center of this argument is the idea that the Amazon's soil, which, like other tropical soils, is poor in nutrients, precluded people from developing agriculture at a large scale. In doing so, ancient inhabitants of the Amazon may have inadvertently stored massive quantities of carbon in the soil, says study presenter Taylor Perron, an earth scientist at MIT. News Indigenous people in the Amazon may have been deliberately creating fertile soil for farming for thousands of years. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Science News. 2023/01, Vol. 203, Issue 2, p10
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Architecture
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0036-8423
  • Accession Number:161259908
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