A Multifaceted Book and Exhibition, ‘Black Earth Rising’ Contends with Colonialism, Land, and ClimateA Multifaceted Book and Exhibition, ‘Black Earth Rising’ Contends with Colonialism, Land, and Climate
Between 450 B.C.E. and 950 C.E., a particularly fertile soil known by researchers as terra preta, literally “black earth” in Portuguese, was cultivated by Indigenous farmers in the Amazon Basin. [...]