01799naa a2200253 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902400490006010000150010924500830012426000090020752009820021665000120119865000200121065000260123070000140125670000140127070000200128470000250130470000190132970000130134870000160136177301680137721656342024-07-09       2024    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d7 ahttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003297673-22DOI1 aGLASER, B.  aHistorical accumulation of biochar as a soil amendment.h[electronic resource]  c2024  aOver long periods of human history, charred residues have often accumulated in settlements just because people lived or worked there, using (smoldering) fire for cooking, pottery, and metal production, and perhaps also for ceremonial or ritual uses. The biochar that results from these activities persists in the soil. Long after the first production of biochar, farming societies emerged, and farmers often noticed the favorable effects of biochar for agriculture. Whether farmers then began to intentionally produce biochar for soil amelioration, and if so, when such intentional production of biochar began, are subjects of debate. Traditional practices that result in the production of biochar and its accumulation in soil will be reviewed. It will be shown that long before the recent interest in biochar research and development, societies in many parts of the world produced biochar-enriched soils, and some of them exploited the benefits of these soils for agriculture.  aBiochar  aSoil amendments  aCondicionador do Solo1 aMCKEY, D.1 aGIANI, L.1 aTEIXEIRA, W. G.1 aDI RAUSO SIMEONE, G.1 aSCHNEEWEIB, J.1 aHIEN, N.1 aHOMBURG, J.  tIn: LEHMANN, J.; JOSEPH, S. (ed.). Biochar for environmental management: science, technology and implementation. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2024. cap. 2, p. 15-55.