"Redescubriendo el Valle de Los Chilchos" & "Los Valles Olvidados"

Estimados Coleg@s,

Adjuntamos información correspondiente a las publicaciones The Chilchos Valley Revisited (Inge Schjellerup, et al.) y The Forgotten Valleys (Inge Schjellerup, et al.) que recogen trabajos sobre la ceja de selva en Perú. Redescubriendo el Valle de Los Chilchos se enfoca en comprender como la actividad humana ha cambiado el paisaje de los bosques de montaña durante los últimos 500 años; Los Valles Olvidados comprende una investigación de ecología histórica y estudios medioambientales sobre el mismo proceso.

Atentamente,

José Collazos
CONDESAN-InfoAndina
Nodo Regional para América Latina del Mountain Forum
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Publicaciones sobre la ceja de selva, Perú

Redescubriendo el Valle de Los Chilchos

The Chilchos Valley Revisited (by Inge Schjellerup, Victor Quipuscoa, Carolina Espinoza, Victotr Peña & Mikael Kamp Sørensen).

Published in November 2005 this book is about the Chilchos Valley in the northeastern slopes of the Andes in Peru attempts to understand how human activities have changed the landscape in the montane forests during the last 500 years. Settements and terraces from the Chachapoya and Inca cultures in the Ceja de Selva witness of an ample use in pre-Hispanic times. Later efter a drastic population decline in the colonial period the Chilchos Valley was forgotten for hundreds of years and then rediscovered and revisted in 1900. Within the stage of rediscovering the valley new socio-cultural processed of adaptation to the environment began with migrations from the Sierra.

Los Valles Olvidados

The Forgotten Valleys (by Inge Schjellerup, Mikael Kamp Sørensen, Carolina Espinoza, Victor Quipuscoa & Victor Peña)

The book is about historical ecology and environmental studies carried out in 2000-2001 by a team of archaeologists, anthropologsts, botanists and geographers in north-eastern Peru.

During the last five hundred years the montane forest landscapes in the Huambo Valley and La Meseta were modified by tribal groups, the Chachapoya and Inca cultures and later by the invasions of the Spaniards. Today population pressure from the highlands is the cause of transformations of the biologically diverse cloud forest.