{"id":974,"date":"2002-03-29T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-29T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=974"},"modified":"2002-03-29T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-29T21:08:00","slug":"ancient-native-americans-terraformed-on-a-vast-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/03\/29\/17\/08\/ancient-native-americans-terraformed-on-a-vast-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Native Americans Terraformed On A Vast Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/2002\/03\/mann.htm\"><i>Terra preta &#8230; guesses, covers at least 10 percent of Amazonia, an area the size of France. It has amazing properties &#8230; Tropical rain doesn&#8217;t leach nutrients from terra preta fields; instead the soil &#8230; fights back &#8230; over time it will re-create the original soil layer in its initial thickness &#8230; generated by a special suite of microorganisms that resists depletion. &#8220;at some threshold level &#8230; dark earth attains the capacity to perpetuate?even regenerate itself?thus behaving more like a living &#8216;super&#8217;-organism than an inert material&#8221;.<\/i><br \/>\n&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Americas%20European%20Colonization\/1491.html\"><i>terra preta was created deliberately. In a process reminiscent of dropping microorganism-rich starter into plain dough to create sourdough bread, Amazonian peoples &#8230; inoculated bad soil with a transforming bacterial charge &#8230; Faced with an ecological problem &#8230; the Indians fixed it. They were in the process of terraforming the Amazon when Columbus showed up and ruined everything.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terra preta &#8230; guesses, covers at least 10 percent of Amazonia, an area the size of France. It has amazing properties &#8230; Tropical rain doesn&#8217;t leach nutrients from terra preta fields; instead the soil&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}