Quebrada De Humahuaca Research Articles

Las plantas comestibles en un sector de las Yungas meridionales (Argentina)

The use of 91 plants species in the diet of rural communities, located in mountain cloud f orests (Yungas) of the Eastern Valley s of Quebrada de Humahuaca (Salta province, Argentina) is analyzed. Native and exotic species, scientific and common names, paris of the plants employed, methods of collection and application, area of origin and/or geographical distribution are considered. Comments on the commercial relationships of the region are also included. The way of cooking some typical dishes are commented in the appendix.

Patrones de intercambio de la Quebrada de Humahuaca, noroeste argentino.

It is outlined to distinguish between the exchange of subsistence goods and the related to ritual or prestige goods. It is consider the autosubsistence of Quebrada de Humahuaca during Regional Developments, Inka and Spanish-Indian periods (900 - 1.595 A.D.), but it is registered distance exchange of exotic goods that serve to reinforce the power of local elite and the ideological manipulation in order to exhibit a kind of goods restrained to the rest of the people. It is envisage the utilization of this rcsource as mechanism of domination by the Inka Empire.

An estimation of inbreeding from isonymy in the historical (1734–1810) population of the Quebrada de Humahuaca (Jujuy, Argentina)

The method of isonymy to estimate inbreeding is applied to the historical population of the Quebrada de Humahuaca (Province de Jujuy, Republic of Argentina). Data from the baptismal records of the Parochial Church of Humahuaca from 1734 to 1810 were grouped into two periods, 1734-72 and 1773-1810. The analysis was carried out twice: (a) using the surnames exactly as they were registered; (b) combining homonymous surnames which were pronounced or spelt in a similar way. The random and non-random components of inbreeding have been investigated through different methods. There were no significant differences between the results of the two analyses, nor between the expected and observed isonymy. The value of F lies somewhere between those for offspring of first cousins once removed and second cousins once removed. There is a tendency for F and its components to increase through time. It is concluded that the high altitude aboriginal population of Humahuaca Parish must have behaved as a panmictic unit.

La Quebrada de Humahuaca (province de Jujuy, Argentine) et les problèmes morphologiques des Andes sèches

The quebrada de Humahuaca. the province of jujuy (Argentina), and the morphological pro-blems of the dry regions of the Andes. The Quebrada de Hamahuaca drains series of south orientated rift-valleys which cut throught the high plateaux of the Puna and the Prepuna It opens on to soft Mesozoic sediment sand on to thick range of detritic material dating from the Upper Tertiary period the Calchaqueno which has developed sharp relief through previous erosion Two eroded slopes and some alluvial terraces have been formed in the course of the Quaternary in the poorly consolidated mass of the Calchaqueno This knowledge enables us to date the first dissection of the Puna blocks long before the Pliocene and the orogenic uplift of this part of the Andes at least in the Miocene The climatic inversion the piedmont rain forest and the moun tain semi-desert steppe is briefly explained by the structure of the sub-tropical anticyclone