​RESEARCH AND ISSUE PUBLICATIONS , DOCUMENTARIES, COLLECTION RESOURCES,  CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDUCATION AND DIALOGUE

Publicaciones, documentales, recursos de la coleccion,  contributiones a la educacion y dialogo


PUBLICACIONS

2022-23

English edition of the first of three volumes on the mushrooms collected from the south to the north of the Peruvian Andes.   
See  Theme 1 webpage for details 
2020  and 2022

​The book brings forth evidence that geometric motifs commonly used in Peru and the Americas before the Spanish Conquest  have specific meaning.   This meaning helps understand messages in ancient art.  In our work it helps understand the context that mushrooms were used. 
EARLIER GMA PUBLICATIONS
​2010-2016  

​DOCUMENTARIES  


​A series of short documentaries were made of mushroom themes, that include discussion of diversity, ecology, forest destruction and collections in various parts of the country.  The full series can be found on You Tube. 

​PHYSICAL SAMPLES OF THE ANDEAN PERU MUSHROOM COLLECTION 


The first collection of over 700 different morpho-species of macrofungi collected over a 2000 km distance over the length of Andean Peru from Bolivia to Ecuador, that was started in 2011 and finished officially in 2021, was deposited at the UPCH herbarium in 2019.  It provides the first Andena wide base line of macrofungal diversity on which mycological research can build. 

A final five part report was handed to SERFOR in 2021. 

​DOCUMENTATION OF TRADITIONALLY CONSUMED MUSHROOMS IN PERU
Together with partners from the Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad de Cusco (UNSAAC) around Cusco,  Maestro Mario Lopez Mesones in the north, and help of individuals from communities from other parts of Peru many locally consumed mushrooms were rediscovered that were last  mentioned last in early post Quechua dictionaries and writings of chroniclers or not mentioned at all.  Some of this research was published as papers such as in 'Los hongos olvidados del Perú' and in a restricted edition of 'Hongos Consumidos en el Perú I. (see image).  However, to date, for ethical reasons associated with concern of short commercial exploitation of unprepared communities and lack of interest of funding bodies to fund market training to  communities (and our own lack of capacity) the full results have not been published. 

​EDUCATION AND CONFERENCE LECTURES AND MATERIALS