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Moche Mortuary Pottery and Culture Change

Latin American Antiquity, 2020
In this article, I investigate the Northern and Southern Moche archaeological cultures by evaluating the data gathered and theories developed since their first identification 25 years ago. I suggest that what was previously considered the Southern Moche tradition was the dominant one throughout most of the North Coast, with regional variations, prior ...
Jeffrey Quilter
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(Re)Defining the Moche State: A Critical Examination of the Socio-political Organization of the Moche Culture

, 2023
Attempts to classify the Moche into rigid socio-political categories have long been a central facet of discourse among scholars of the Moche culture. The central questions I originally intended to address in this paper were as follows: Were the Mochica a loosely organized confederation of political entities linked by ideology and political alliances ...
Locke, James
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Enemy – Stranger – Neighbour: The Image of the Other in Moche Culture

, 2021
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Wołoszyn, Janusz Z.
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The Structural Paradox: Moche Culture as Political Ideology

Latin American Antiquity, 1995
In this article I demonstrate the utility of an historical study of social change by examining the development of political authority on the Peruvian north coast during the Moche period through its symbols of power. We too often equate the material record with “archaeological culture,” assume that it reflects broad cultural reality, and interpret it by
Garth Bawden
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Structural and Geotechnical Engineering Assessment of Huaca De La Luna – A Massive Earthen Moche Culture Pyramid in Northern Peru

Journal of Cultural Heritage, 2018
Abstract The present paper presents results of a comprehensive engineering analysis for understanding the current structural damage condition of a sector of one of the most representative archaeological complexes in Peru: the main Moche culture pyramid of Huaca de la Luna.
Santiago Uceda, Miguel A. Pando, Benjamin Castaneda   +2 more
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The Lord of Ucupe Mask From Moche Culture (Peru). A Multianalytical Study of the Materials From the Metals to the Adhesive

Journal of Cultural Heritage
The aim of this paper is to characterize materials belonging to one of the masks coming from the Lord of Ucupe's tomb in the region of Lambayeque in Peru. The mask belongs to the Moche culture which lived in the north of Peru since 100 CE. Along with the study of the extraordinary metal alloy technique using X-ray fluorescence (ED XRF) integrated with ...
Antonio Brunetti, Maria Perla Colombini, Erika Ribechini   +2 more
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Family Relations of Moche Elite Burials on the North Coast of Peru (~500 CE): Analyses of the Señora De Cao and Relatives [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Gabriel Prieto   +2 more
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Moche, Geography and Culture Of

2018
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