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Exciting stuff!

posted by [personal profile] panik at 01:17pm on 29/08/2008 under , , ,
Well, it is if you're into historical ecology, tropical soils and the history of the rainforest (which I very much am).

Lost towns discovered in the Amazon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7586860.stm
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posted by [identity profile] quietdarkness.livejournal.com at 02:05pm on 29/08/2008
That IS fascinating! I'm a rainforest fan, anyway. The good thing about rainforests is that they do regrow and regenerate once the farming/cultivation stops. It might not look like the primary forest, but it's still got a very good ecosystem going. I've seen enough secondary and primary rainforest in Costa Rica to know.
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 02:11pm on 29/08/2008
The theory is that most of what we consider virgin rainforest is actually human-influenced. Some estimates have a population of 85 million + living in the Amazon rainforests before smallpox wiped them out - Because there's little stone though, there's little building archaeology, except the pottery - tons and tons of pottery. And yet some still deny there was ever a civilisation there. Go figure. *g*

I've seen enough secondary and primary rainforest in Costa Rica to know.
Love Costa Rica! I've only been there once on a three day visit but I adored it.
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posted by [identity profile] snailbones.livejournal.com at 02:56pm on 31/08/2008



Ooh - great article thanks. I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere else... I'm now indulging in happy fantasies of rainforest growing back all over the place. Well, possibly not Birmingham. Or maybe that wouldn't be so terrible *g*

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Well...

posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 05:04pm on 31/08/2008
It would, given 100 years or so. *g*
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