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Re: Clever PC pre-columbians in Nature
- To: permaculture
- Subject: Re: Clever PC pre-columbians in Nature
- From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:14:53 -0500
- Newsgroups: permaculture
- Organization: Venaura Farm
- References: <LYRIS-121195-92464-2000.11.17-12.51.43--johns#eco-living.net@franklin.oit.unc.edu> <81969@permaculture>
- Reply-to: lflondon@mindspring.com
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:48:17 -0800, "John Schinnerer"
<johns@eco-living.net> wrote:
>There was an article in the NY times a few days ago, referring to a recent
>article in the journal Nature, which presented some theories on rather
>PC-like land use in South America, pre-Columbus. Basically, there is
>physical evidence (earthworks) in the landscape that seasonal wet/dry
>savannah areas supported much larger populations than we "contemporary"
>types would think possible. The inhabitants apparently built large ponds
>and canal networks to retain wet-season flood water and fish through the
>dry season, with palms planted along the canals and most likely fish weirs
>in them...haven't seen the full article but it sounds like interesting
>reading!
Fascinating. Is there a URL at the NYT website where we can read the
article in full?
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lflondon@mindspring.com
london@metalab.unc.edu
http://www.ibiblio.org/london
http://www.ibiblio.org/permaculture