Tools & tillage: a journal on the history of the implements of cultivation and other agricultural processes (5.1984/1987)

Fig. 1. Ploughing and planting potatoes in the Highlands. Photo IS. - Pflugen und Pflanzen von
Kartoffeln im Hochland.

PLOUGHING IN CHUQUIBAMBA,
PERU

By
Inge Schjellerup

In many highland peasant communities of District, Province of Chachapoyas, Depart-
the Andean region in Peru, the introduced ment of Amazonas in the north-eastern part
ancient Mediterranean ard-plough is still in of Peru, I was able to participate in various
use. During fieldwork in the Chuquibamba agricultural activities and make a careful