Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

I'm not sure why that would matter at all. We know they were all over North
America. What interests me is their advanced agriculture, esp the
widespread Mississippian culture. BTW those Americans were here thousands
of years before European "Americans", and there are claims of settlements
40,000 years ago, one only a few minutes from where we live in NM, another
in southern California and one in Peru.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/12/2007 at 12:56 PM Barbara Fischer wrote:

>But most of these "americans" lived south of the U.S.....in So. American
>and
>Mexico
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
>To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
>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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