Intentional Creation of Carbon-Rich Dark Earth Soils in the Ancient Amazon
Intentional Creation of Carbon-Rich Dark Earth Soils in the Ancient Amazon
Morgan J. Schmidt1,2, Samuel Lukens Lukens Goldberg3, Michael Heckenberger4, Carlos Fausto5, Bruna Franchetto5, Jennifer Watling6, Helena Lima7, Bruno Moraes8, Wetherbee Bryan Dorshow9, Joshua Toney10, Yamalui Kuikuro11, Kumessi Waura12, Huke Kuikuro11, Wate Kuikuro12, Maricá Kuikuro11, Takumã Kuikuro11, Yahila Kuikuro11, Afukaka Kuikuro12, Wenceslau Texeira13, Bruna Rocha14, Vinicius Honorato14, Hugo Tavares15, Marcos Magalhães16, Carlos Augusto Palheta Barbosa17, João Aires da Fonseca Jr.18, Kelton Mendes19, Luís Reynaldo Ferracciú Alleoni20, Carlos E Cerri21, Manuel Arroyo-Kalin22, Eduardo Neves6 and J Taylor Perron23, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of Florida, Anthropology, Gainesville, United States, (3)University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, Miami, United States, (4)University of Florida, Anthropology, Gainesville, FL, United States, (5)UFRJ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, (6)University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (7)Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Humanities/Archaeology, Belem, Brazil, (8)University of Pittsburgh, Anthropology, Pittsburgh, United States, (9)Earth Analytic, Inc, Santa Fe, NM, United States, (10)Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, United States, (11)Kuikuro Indigenous Association of the Upper Xingu (AIKAX), Canarana, Brazil, (12)Kuikuro Indigenous Association of the Upper Xingu (AIKAX), Ipatse, Brazil, (13)EMBRAPA Solos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (14)Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Programa de Antropologia e Arqueologia, Santarem, Brazil, (15)Universidade de São Paulo, Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, São Paulo, Brazil, (16)Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Coordenação de Ciências Humanas, Belem, Brazil, (17)Universidade Federal do Pará, Belem, Brazil, (18)Arqueomaquina, Belem, Brazil, (19)Tapera - Grupo de Estudos em Arqueologia Amazônica, Belem, Brazil, (20)USP University of Sao Paulo, Soil Science, Piracicaba, Brazil, (21)ESALQ, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil, (22)University College London, Institute of Archaeology, London, Brazil, (23)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
