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Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004)
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Amazonian Dark Earths: Explorations in Space and Time (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004)
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The idea for the volume first came about through a conversation the
editors had at the Sustainable Management of Soil Organic Matter
Conference in Edinburgh in September 1999. It developed with two
symposia on Amazonian dark earths that were held in 2001 in
conjunction with the Conference ofLatin Americanist Geographers in
Benicassim, Spain, and the Congress of the Brazi- lian
Archaeological Society in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, respectively, and
culmi- nated at the First International Workshop on Terra Preta
Soils held in Manaus and Santarem, Brazil, in July 2002. As a
comprehensive treatment of these dis- tinctive anthropogenic soils
has never been published, we decided to select papers from these
symposia and develop an edited volume. The result con- tains the
efforts of an international group of distinguished scholars from
the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, biology, geography,
and soil science. The 15 chapters of this volume provide an array
of interesting and comple- mentary interpretative stances developed
from a diverse body of investigative methodologies. The readerwill
note that there are some inconsistencies inter- minology and
differences in interpretation among the chapter presentations.
However, the editors purposely allowed these to remain and retained
as much as possible of the authors' own words, since we feit that
it was important to maintain the flavor of the symposium atmosphere
in this volume and conse- quently did not intentionally force
standardization upon the authors.
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