Estudio de los saberes ancestrales en el ámbito de la agrobiodiversidad de las terrazas de la comunidad de Joyaczhí - Sector "B", del cantón Chunchi, provincia de Chimborazo

Abstract

This investigation had as purpose to retrieve ancestral knowledge of agrobiodiversity used by the pre-Columbian cultures of the Terraces of the community Joyaczhí, Canton Chunchi, Chimborazo province; where took place the following procedure: the archaeological exploration was carried out through the contextualization historical and archaeological, planimetry and prospecting georadar of place finding that indeed these terraces with an archaeological site monumental constituted by four structural modifications in an area of 5ha and perimeter of 950m with a stratigraphy frank sandy. The excavation of three units for the recovery of material archaeological botanic was made. The ceramic analysis allowed to determine that this filiation. The description of carpological analysis was made using catalogs of seeds and the program Photoshop CS6 on the digital progressing of the following families and species: family Amaranthaceae (Spinacea oleraceae) with 178 seeds and (Amaranthus spp.) with 148 seeds, family Verbenaceae, (Verbena litoralis) with 21 seeds, Fabaceae family (Trifolium repens) with 2 seeds, family Papaveraceae with 4 seeds, Rutaceae family with 1 seed, Brassicaceae family with 2 seeds, Asteraceae family with 1 seed, Poaceae family with 2 seeds. The knowledges ancestral found were associated mainly with the following techniques and agricultural technologies: terraces, association of crops, species of coverage, species such as green manure, weed control.

Key words: ancestral knowledge, agrobiodiversity, pre-Columbian cultures, study carpological.