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TIL that earthworms in the American northeast are largely invasive species. That's very surprising to me
Are they problematic though? There were earthworms there before the ice age I think.
I'm surprised that anything remains. If the area is fertile I'd expect it to be farmland now. Clearly it was logged for a while, and perhaps they were expecting to cut it down again at some point.
And then much of the logging the UP is selective harvesting rather than clear cutting, so they go in every so often and take out the larger trees.
> During their excavations, the scientists also found several artifacts, including charcoal and fragments of broken ceramics. These discoveries suggest that the area’s Indigenous farmers may have dumped their household waste and the remnants of fires onto their fields, using them as compost. Samples taken from the mounds suggest the farmers enriched the dirt with soil from nearby wetlands. Exciting - that sounds a lo…
I wouldn't have imagined broken pottery could serve as compost, how is that made possible? It's clay but it retains some properties even after baking?
Some species of bacteria needed for the vital nitrogen-cycle thrive inside clay.
That's the reason why clay balls/pebbles/pellets are omnipresent in many types of plant cultivation projects.
Does anyone know a 3 sisters equivalent native to Eurasia?
Asia and Africa have rich historical polyculture traditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyculture?wprov=sfti1#Histor...
> Geographer Carl O. Sauer described the Three Sisters as "a symbiotic plant complex of North and Central America without an equal elsewhere".Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would you characterize this distinction? It sounds like you're simply describing the same behavior.
Intentional vs incidental?
If you're reading about the use of pottery in soil, it does not matter what the people intended—at least, not as a primary concern. It is easy to read intention into headlines though.
Does anyone know a 3 sisters equivalent native to Eurasia?
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If you were in the woods( pick a spot) and had whatever food/medicines you needed could you build pottery from scratch. Electricity is fine and all, but I imagine the basics of civilization could be replicated by a few good craftsmen(people)
Primitive Technology on YouTube does this repeatedly. You make a hole or find a piece of slate for processing, you mine clay from a stream bed, and then you make your first pot as a tool for moving water, the second pot for making food, and before or after the second pot you make clay bricks to build a kiln to high fire other things more efficiently - less fuel and more multitasking of other tasks.
In the Middle East they probably think that's short too!
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Primitive Technology on YouTube does this repeatedly. You make a hole or find a piece of slate for processing, you mine clay from a stream bed, and then you make your first pot as a tool for moving water, the second pot for making food, and before or after the second pot you make clay bricks to build a kiln to high fire other things more efficiently - less fuel and more multitasking of other tasks.
Why don't contestants on "Alone" do this?
I think at least a few of them may have trouble locating pure clay where they are dropped but not all of them, every season, for years.