Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Barbara Fischer" <cen12205@centurytel.net>]

But most of these "americans" lived south of the U.S.....in So. American and
Mexico
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From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
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Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 1:49 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] 1491 New Revelations of the Americas
BeforeColumbus


>
> 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
>  A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the
> Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.
> http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1649
>
> Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the
people
> who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing
> had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in
> small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas
> was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles
C.
> Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the
> last thirty years proving these and many other long-held assumptions
wrong.
>
> In a book that startles and persuades, Mann reveals how a new generation
of
> researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came to previously
> unheard-of conclusions. Among them:
>
>     * In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than
> in Europe.
>     * Certain cities-such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital-were far
> greater in population than any contemporary European city. Furthermore,
> Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running
> water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets.
>     * The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before
> the Egyptians built the great pyramids.
>     * Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process
> so sophisticated that the journal Science recently described it as "man's
> first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering."
>     * Amazonian Indians learned how to farm the rain forest without
> destroying it-a process scientists are studying today in the hope of
> regaining this lost knowledge.
>     * Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans
> arrived in a hemisphere already massively "landscaped" by human beings.
>
> Mann sheds clarifying light on the methods used to arrive at these new
> visions of the pre-Columbian Americas and how they have affected our
> understanding of our history and our thinking about the environment. His
> book is an exciting and learned account of scientific inquiry and
> revelation.
>
>
>
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