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Researchers Discover First Use of Fertilizer

Posted by Unknown on from the circle-of-life dept.

sciencehabit writes "Europe's first farmers helped spread a revolutionary way of living across the continent. They also spread something else. A new study reveals that these early agriculturalists were fertilizing their crops with manure 8000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought."

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  1. Pfft, it has nothing on superdirt from the Amazon by transporter_ii · · Score: 5, Informative

    It still covers up to 10% of the Amazon basin, is man made, and if we could figure out how they did it:

    If recreated, the engineered soil could feed the hungry and may even help fight global warming, experts suggest.

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081119-lost-cities-amazon.html

    Imagine if manure spread thousands of years ago still grew crops today. The terra preta —"dark earth" — of the Amazon is still working today.

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