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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Saturday 25 April: Lithic Mulch


Today we sampled a site quite some distance around the north coast.
Here's a view of our site (with a calf for scale), which contained
about 2 meters of nearly rockless soiI. It took researchers a long
time to recognize that all these rocks were put in place by people to
reduce water losses from cultivated plants. Amazing, eh?
 
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