March 27, 2012
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Moche Peru
PATRONATO HUACAS DEL VALLE DE MOCHE- Noticias- News [ Translate this page ]
http://huacasdemoche.pe/ Official website & Museum
The archaeological complex Huacas del Sol y de la Luna
(Temple of the Sun & the Moon) which is located in the northern coast of
Peru includes those two big truncated pyramids, plus the Huaca Las Estrellas
(Temple of the Stars), the Huaca del Cerro Blanco (White Hill Temple),
the spider geoglyph and other constructions.
In a landscape dominated by the imposing Cerro Blanco (White Hill),
vegetation thrives because of the river Moche and the proximity of the sea.
Both huacas constituted the center of apower of the millenary Mochica, a
culture that developed from 100 to 900 AD. Nowadays the archaeological complex,
also known as Huacas de Moche (Moche Temples), encloses an area of 60 hectares.
http://huacasdemoche.pe/Hallan nuevas iconografías Huaca de la Luna 25/8/2013
www.larepublica.pe/25-08-2013/hallan-nuevas-iconografias-huaca-de-la-luna#!foto2Develarán gran patio ceremonial de huaca de la Luna 23/01/2012
Comenzaron hoy los trabajos para retirar el adobe y la tierra que cubren el gran patio ceremonial de la huaca de La Luna, antiguo templo de la sociedad Moche, informó el codirector del proyecto arqueológico ubicado en la provincia de Trujillo, La Libertad, Ricardo Morales. (AND396555)
http://www.andina.com.pe/Espanol/noticia-develaran-gran-patio-ceremonial-huaca-de-luna-396555.aspxMoche mural huaca de la luna interactive photo gigapixel 1/8/2013
Descubren antigua entrada a Huaca de la Luna y altar de relieves policromados 18/1/2012
Proyecto UNT “huaca de la luna” mostró hallazgo sui generis
El interés de los convocados fue una original construcción semicircular (en media luna) de cuatro escalinatas, que mide en su parte superior 3 metros y en su base alrededor de 5 metros y medio, con rampa de Este a Oeste, que a sospechas del arqueólogo UNT Santiago Uceda se trataría de un altar de sacrificios.
http://trujillodiwebnoticias.blogspot.com/2012/01/proyecto-unt-huaca-de-la-luna-mostro.html
Arqueólogos desvelarán secretos escondidos por siglos en huaca del Sol en Trujillo 21/10/2010
Serán desvelados por los arqueólogos gracias a las excavaciones que se iniciarán en el lugar a partir de abril de 2011, anunció hoy el codirector del proyecto arqueológico, Ricardo Morales Gamarra.
Se invertirán un millón 200,000 nuevos soles, se buscará definir la función que cumplió la ancestral edificación, así como sus características de ingeniería y su secuencia arquitectónica.
“Se presume que este lugar cumplió una función netamente administrativa; sin embargo, se determinará si se realizaban rituales religiosos, lo cual cambiaría el rumbo de la investigación.”
La zona tuvo trabajos de prospección que, junto a algunas investigaciones del arqueólogo alemán Max Uhle, a inicios del siglo pasado, indican que en la plataforma sur de la pirámide moche habría pinturas murales.http://trujillodiwebnoticias.blogspot.com/2010/10/arqueologos-desvelaran-secretos.html
World Monuments Fund announced US$ 1 million grant to Huaca de la Luna 5th April 2010
Andina 5/4/2010
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Huaca de La Luna (The Moon Temple), in Trujillo (La Libertad). Photo: ANDINA / Oscar Paz. - The World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced today the award of
US$ 1 million to Huaca de la Luna, one of the most significant
Moche ceremonial complexes located in Trujillo, La Libertad,
northern Peru, to help develop an integrated management plan
to support its inscription as a Unesco World Heritage Site.
This is an official designation that would acknowledge to the world
the extraordinary importance of this heritage site, the WMF said.
www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?Id=R401w3br1C4=
Experts to unveil first level of the Huaca de la Luna façade
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Details on the walls of Huaca de la Luna in Trujillo. Photo: ANDINA/Oscar Paz. - Trujillo, Apr. 07 2010 (ANDINA).- The first two levels of the main facade of the Huaca de la Luna, located in La Libertad, will be unveiled by the specialists who work in this sacred temple of the Moche culture, with a one-million-dollar donation of the World Monuments Fund (WMF).
The WMF announced Monday the award to Huaca de la Luna to help develop an integrated management plan to support its inscription as a Unesco World Heritage Site.
The archaeological project director Ricardo Morales said that excavation works are being carried out in the main façade, which according to previous investigations, would keep under ground two of its levels, the first ones built.
Morales considered that the unearthing of the second level will be completed by the end of this year, and in 2011 the first one will be recovered.
The donation will also enable to finish the operating plan of the archaeological complex, one of Unesco’s requirements for the sites to be considered as Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
The contribution of the organization represents the greatest donation given in Latin America, considering that it is about one of the most important archeological sites of the continent.
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Peruvian archaeological heritage to be promoted in the US
Peruvian archaeological heritage to be promoted in the US
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Chan Chan archaeological complex. - Lima, Apr. 07 (ANDINA).- Peru’s Export and Tourism Promotion Board (Promperu) will promote several Peruvian archaeological sites during its participation in the Archaeological Institute of America Gala, to be held in late April in the United States.
The event is organized by the Archaeological Institute of America, the world’s largest and most important archaeological organization, and will take place from April 26 to 30 in New York City.
Peru will present its different archaeological attractions, such as the Lady of Cao exhibition, and will offer live music and dance performances as well as traditional dishes.
Peruvian history, culture, cuisine and entertainment take center stage at this black tie affair. Tickets can be purchased at www.archaeological.org/gala
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New pyramid discovered in Peru linked to ancient copper industry
Huaca Colorada, which translates as ‘coloured hill’ a 1,400 year flat-topped pyramid, built by the Moche culture, was used for the living rather than just for the dead, and contains a wealth of artefacts, murals and human remains, concluded excavation team leader Professor Edward Swenson, of the University of Toronto, The living complex would have housed no more than 25 people, and was complete with patios, a kitchen, and stands for ‘paica’ – large vessels for storing water and corn beer. The team also identified a bin used to hold guinea pigs: "The preservation was so good that we actually came across guinea pig coprolites (faeces)."
Several murals covered the corridors at the pyramid's summit. The best-preserved of these depicts a Moche warrior carrying a club. Other murals include a depiction of what appears to be a cactus with two mountain peaks and a rainbow, and a representation of two litter-bearers carrying a person.
The skeletons of three adolescent girls, and body parts belonging to four other individuals, were found on a platform at the top of the pyramid. The girls were buried with beads around their neck and their feet were close together, suggesting that they had been bound. Charring on the girls' knees indicate that their bodies were subject to "ritualistic burning." This evidence raises the possibility that the girls were sacrificed as part of a ritual, something not uncommon among the Moche. However physical anthropologists examining the skeletons could find no evidence of trauma. This means the girls either died naturally or were killed in such a way that no evidence was left on their bones. "It’s possible they were sacrificed but we don’t know," adds Prof Swenson.
To the south of the pyramid the team found a large number of copper artefacts including spatulas, knives, smelting receptacles and ornaments. "I’ve never found such a high quantity of copper," says Swenson. "The power of these elites could very much have been grounded in control of copper production." Huaca Colorada is near the coast of Peru where copper is scarce, so the site’s rulers would have had to trade with people living in the mountains, at least 200km to the east. Swenson speculates that the rulers "may have been considered lords – but lords of a particular kind – in transforming ore into finished products". Alternatively, says Swenson, there could have been a "corporation of co-operating but high status practitioners."
Huaca Colorada appears to be undefended. Swenson said the team found "no walls, no sling-stones... unlike many of the sites built on the coastal hills." The area surrounding the settlement was mostly flat, and would have offered little resistance from invaders. There was certainly warfare in the Moche world, but perhaps, for some unknown reason, Huaca Colorada and its pyramid were off-limits to invaders. Excavation work continues at the site, and researchers will conduct a GPR survey on the pyramid this summer to determine its size.
Huaca de La Luna to receive 110,000 visitors in 2008 Andina 5/11/2008 More Espanol
Spain returns pre-Columbian artifacts from Patterson Collection to Peru
Project wins fine government practice award
Ejemplos de buen gobierno en los lugares más inverosímiles
En pleno desierto
Desde hace 16 años el Proyecto Huaca de La Luna, financiado por Backus,
ha demostrado ser un excelente ejemplo de la alianza estratégica entre
empresa privada, el Estado y una entidad académica como la Universidad
Nacional de Trujillo, demostrando cómo invertir en cultura e identidad
puede tener un impacto social muy positivo.
www.caretas.com.pe/Main.asp?T=3082&id=12&idE=740&idSTo=326&idA=28292
Lima, 24 Agosto 2007.- En ceremonia realizada en el Hotel Sheraton de Lima, el Proyecto Arqueológico Huaca de la Luna recibió el Premio Buenas Prácticas Gubernamentales en la Categoría Promoción de la Cultura e Identidad. La candidatura presentada se centró en describir 16 años de investigación y revaloración de la cultura Moche, convirtiéndose en centro de investigación, congregando a especialistas nacionales e internacionales, que han generado 504 publicaciones científicas y una escuela de campo que ha formado a la fecha 480 estudiantes universitarios y de post grado nacionales y extranjeros.
This exhibit focuses on the archaeology in Mesoamerica and South America,
with additional pages on specific sites, cultures, and technology used by them.Moche art often represents ceremony, mythology and the daily life of the Moche people.
Wonderfully expressive, it depicts everything from sexual acts to ill humans,
and even anthropomorphized warriors, deities and humans.Though the predominant medium of the Moche was clay, the other mediums of
copper, silver and gold also held a functional post within Moche art.www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/south/cultures/moche.html - 9k - Cached - Similar pages
Moche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Moche civilization (the Mochica culture, Early Chimu, Pre-Chimu, Proto-Chimu, etc.)
Moche history is broadly categorized into five periods based on the increasing
complexity of pottery decoration...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moche - 37k - Cached - Similar pagesAncient Moche burials provided insects with banquet
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/09/moche-exposed-dead-flies/1
Huacas del Sol y la Luna, Moche Culture
...a multi-year expedition to explore the
Moche Culture on the North Coast of Peru.
Under the direction of George Gumerman IV,
this project seeks to understand the Moche
civilization of Peru through the study of
prehistoric food systems.
Initial excavations in 1997 at two rural
Moche Valley farming villages,
Ciudad de Dios and Santa Rosa-Quirihuac,
can now be compared to our ongoing explorations
at the Moche political and ceremonial center
of El Brujo.moche.nau.edu/ - 10k - Cached - Similar pages
MOCHE ORIGINS PROJECT
Ciudad de Dios and Cerro León in the middle Moche Valley.
The goal of the Moche Origins Project is to examine how highland-coastal relationships,
social stratification, and warfare influenced the development of the ...
rla.unc.edu/Research/Moche.html - 4k - Cached - Similar pagesuniversity of north carolina chapel hill
June 30 – July 26, 2007
The field school is part of the Moche Origins Project directed by Brian Billman ...
Cost does not include airfare to Peru, transportation to Trujillo, ...
rla.unc.edu/Teaching/mop/default.htm - 1k -Remnants of monumental architecture in the Moche Valley, Peru. ...
These pages about Moche iconography, created primarily for teaching by Professor Billman,
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=94eDBaUn8sI&feature=share
THE BURIAL THEME IN MOCHE ICONOGRAPHY
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the burial theme consists of at least four activities: burial, assembly, conch-shell transfer, & sacrifice...
Iguana & Wrinkle Face are specific individuals,... in each of the four activities...
If a curer lost a patient through ignorance... he was put to death by beating and stoning.
His body was tied by a rope to that of his dead patient, and the latter was buried.
The curer ... was left above the ground to be eaten by the birds (Calancha)...www.doaks.org/moche.pdf - Similar pages
The lost civilization of the Moche 1 of 7 from History Channel
LA CIVILIZACION PERDIDA DEL PERU LOS MOCHICAS - 1 of 7 from History Channelhttp://es.youtube .com/watch?v=RfPCUk3zSS4&feature=related
Northern Moche
Invasiones y saqueos destruyen complejo arqueológico en Reque
www.elcomerc ioperu.com. pe/EdicionImpres a/Html/2007- 04-30/ImEcNacion al0715188. html
Sustainable Preservation Initiative Announces First Grant WinnerThe Sustainable Preservation Initiative (SPI) is an innovative organization that
preserves the world's cultural heritage by providing sustainable economic opportunities
to poor communities where endangered archaeological sites are located.
It has awarded a grant of $48,000 for artisanal and touristic development around the
Moche cemetery site of San José de Moro, on the north coast of Peru ("Moro").
The proceeds will help create long-term business revenue and employment, as well as
provide powerful economic incentives to ensure the preservation of this important site.
http://m1e.net/c?67123628-8lK73urBUQM06%405116028-qPFB1K53rdO/s
Tumba de sacerdotisa revela detalles de los rituales moche 06/08/2013
www.rumbosdelperu.com/tumba-de-sacerdotisa-revela-detalles-de-los-rituales-moche-V848.html
Amazon.com: Moche Fineline Painting from San Jose De Moro (Cotsen ...
Amazon.com: Moche Fineline Painting from San Jose De Moro (Cotsen Monograph) ...
Moche civilisation flourished on the north coast of Peru from AD 200 to 800. ...La civilización perdida de los Moche 6 http://es.youtube .com/watch?v=82-pG3w2lJU&feature=related
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SYLLABUS FIELD SCHOOL – 2006 SEASON SAN JOSE DE MORO ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT (PDF)
San Jose de Moro is a small village located on the banks of the Chaman ...
The Moche occupation (400 – 850 AD) occurred immediately before the Transitional ...
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Cerro Chepén Fortifications may indicate increased conflict & civil war.
Presentan libro "Chepén Cultural y Turístico"
Moche Burials Uncovered @ nationalgeographic.com Dos Cabezas
Finding undisturbed Moche tombs is rare in an area
that has been looted for more than four centuries,
yet from 1997 to 1999 our team of U.S. and Peruvian
researchers discovered three extraordinary tombs at
Dos Cabezas, an ancient settlement in the lower
Jequetepeque Valley. Outside each burial chamber
was a miniature tomb containing a small copper statue
meant to represent the tomb’s principal occupant.
Each tomb also contained a remarkably tall adult male
who would have been a giant among his peers.
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UCLA Today: Anthropologist unearths treasures in Moche tombs Dos Cabezas
"These are the richest Moche tombs ever found. If I were anywhere else, I'd be wondering
if anything is happening, if anyone is rifling through the tomb." ...
www.today.ucla.edu/2001/010227anthro.html - 12k -[PDF]National Geographic News @ nationalgeographic.com 15 Feb 2001 Dos Cabezas
Tomb of "Giants" Unearthed in Peru
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/02/0215_moche.html - 38k - Cached - Similar pagesFor about 400 years, from 150 to 550 A.D., the Moche inhabited Dos Cabezas ...
Archaeologists are not clear why the Moche occupation of Dos Cabezas ended, ...
magazine.ucla.edu/year2001/summer01_03.html - 20k - Cached - Similar pagesHoward Nowes News Feb 15 2001 Washington Post on Dos Cabezas.
A Grand Past Comes to Surface Ornate Moche Tombs Unearthed in Peru ...
And when their leaders died, the Moche of northern Peru buried them in tombs filled ...
www.howardnowes.com/articles/news.cfm?news=15 - 11k -La Historia de un saqueo (La Mina)
www.el comercioperu.com.pe/EdicionImpresa/Html/2007-04-29/ImEcMundo0714831.html
An ancient Peruvian headdress which was looted from an archaeological site
has been found by police in London. 17 Aug 2006
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=all&edition=i&q=peru+archaeology
www.el comercioperu.com.pe/EdicionImpresa/Html/2007-04-29/ImEcMundo0714653.html
Joyas peruanas pueden ser recuperadas Dos objetos de oro de culturas Moche y Wari están en libros editados en el Perú en los 90.
Editor de Perú Explorer, Eloy Ramírez, muestra nariguera moche que aparece en libro peruano de 1990 y la misma pieza –alterada– que Christie's subastaría mañana en Nueva York. (Foto. Arturo Pérez).Dos de las piezas de las 36 pertenecientes al
patrimonio peruano que subastará la Casa Christie's
mañana 23 de mayo, podrían ser recuperadas por
nuestro país. Hay pruebas que demuestran que
estaban en el Perú en los años 90, cuando el
tratado internacional que impide el tráfico de
bienes culturales–de 1972– ya estaba vigente.Se trata de una nariguera de oro moche y una
máscara wari del mismo metal.Ambas aparecen en el catálogo de la casa de
subastas, pero antes aparecieron en el libro
Trujillo precolombino editado aquí por la
empresa Odebrecht en 1990.
La fotografía de la nariguera aparece en la
página 311 y la de la máscara en la 339 del libro.
La historiadora Mariana Mould de Pease también ha
señalado que una imagen de la pieza moche aparece
en la página 128 del libro Oro antiguo del Perú, editado por el Banco de Crédito del Perú en 1992.
Estos datos los proporcionó Eloy Ramírez, editor de la revista Perú Explorer, la primera en informar
sobre el sobre el tema."Nosotros hemos hecho llegar a la Cancillería las fotografías de ambas piezas para que
las autoridades empiecen las gestiones o el reclamo respectivo ante la casa Christie's.
También hemos brindado toda la información que tenemos sobre las otras piezas que se
subastarán", contó Ramírez.
El dato
LABOR. El gobierno peruano tomó contacto con Christie's y ha entregado documentación
sobre las piezas. Muchas están amparadas por un tratado con EEUU de 1997.www.larepublica.com.pe/content/view/158133/30/
"Demuestren de dónde proceden estas piezas" 
EFE. Se ofertan bellos objetos como este.
La salida a subasta de 48 piezas arqueológicas peruanas en las casasSothebys y Christie's de Nueva York ha llevado al arqueólogo Walter Alva, descubridor
de la tumba del Señor de Sipán, a pedir que se demuestre la legalidad de su procedencia.
El arqueólogo peruano explicó que "este tipo de remate se ha convertido en unasituación usual" y, por tal motivo, planteó "solicitar, a través de
la embajada del Perú en Estados Unidos, que la galería sustente la tenencia
de estos objetos antes de 1980".
A partir de 1980 entraron en vigor leyes internacionales que protegen el patrimonio cultural
y, en 1997, Perú y Estados Unidos firmaron un Memorándum de Entendimiento que impone
restricciones para la importación de objetos arqueológicos precolombinos.
La subasta se realiza desde hoy hasta el próximo miércoles.www.larepublica.com.pe/content/view/157374/30/
Moche Portrait Vessels
"Moche ceramics, the best known of ancient Peruvian artifacts, are among the finest ...
Moche Stirrup spout Vessel with Portrait Head 200 - 800 AD ...
www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/moche.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pagesAt the Museum: The Moche People and Culture Described
The Moche culture flourished on the dry deserts of the Northern Coast of Peru
between 200 BC and AD 700.
Archaeological study of Moche cities has shown that the society was made up
of Warrior-Priest rulers, weavers, metalsmiths, potters, farmers, and fishermen.
Moche farmers used sophisticated irrigation techniques to turn the desert into
productive farmland.
The Moche often depicted actual people in pottery...
Persons portrayed in art actually represented real people or at least actual roles
taken by individuals in Moche society.www.museum.upenn.edu/Moche/mocheculture.html - 9k - Cached - Similar pages
Fig 1ON DECEMBER 4, 1909, the Illustrated London News reported that a collection
of 250 prehistoric pottery objects excavated from the Chicama Valley on the
north coast of Peru had recently surfaced in London.
The reporter was lavish in his admiration for these exotic works and their
creators, "a highly civilised people who lived and flourished about 5000 bc,
when this England of ours was inhabited, if at all, by a race of skinclad savages."
Part of the collection was acquired by the British Museum that same month,
and shortly thereafter the Burlington Magazine also ran an article on it,
this one by Keeper Charles H. Read. He was less effusive in his assessment
of the material, noting that "the readers of the Burlington Magazine will
probably be somewhat surprised at a subject like the present being thought
worthy to come within the scope of an artistic publication."
The material in question was to ultimately be associated with the Moche
civilization of northern coastal Peru.
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Iconography of the Moche: Unraveling the Mystery of the Warrior-Priest ...
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Much of what we know about the Moche's ceremonial life comes from examination and interpretation
of their art. Until recently, scientists thought that the violent scenes portrayed in Moche art were
Moche folklore. In recent years, however, excavations have unearthed some of the real-life props
and characters that took part in the drama of human sacrifice. Above is an artistic depiction of
the Moche sacrifice ceremony. Here, prisoners of war have their throats cut and their blood
consumed by the lord of the Moche.
In other religious scenes, warfare is depicted as Moche versus Moche based on the kind of clothes
depicted in the scenes. This appears to be ritual warfare where honor could be won or lost.
Moche warriors fight each other dressed in elegant ceremonial costumes.
Warfare is always shown to be one on one. Winning is portrayed by the clothing of the defeated
person beginning to fall away. The point seems to be the capture and not the killing --
which is rarely found in their art. Moche prisoners are stripped and "roughed up"-making them bleed.
The nude prisoners are lead to a procession of pyramids where sacrificing is going on in the background.
After the sacrifice, the bodies were dismembered.
Did the priests/leaders gain some sort of power from drinking the blood?
www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/godkings/moche/index_moche.html - 4k - Cached - Similar pagesHuaca del Moche
Essay on various aspects of the Moche. Religion, sites, bibliography, terminology.
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Bibliography of sources useful for studying the Moche (Mochica) of pre-Inca Peru.
members.tripod.com/~Moche/Moche_Bib.html - 16k - Cached - Similar pagesGold & Sacrifice: Treasures of Ancient Peru - Frieze Moche fine ...
25 October 2003 to 26 January 2004
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Ancient Peru Torture Deaths: Sacrifices or War Crimes?Verano's latest finds, however, undermine the notion that these scenes
were merely a part of ritual combat. Some of the recently unearthed skeletons,
the researchers say, show marks indicating that the bones were stripped of
flesh with even greater care than would have been characteristic of cannibalism.
One clue is that some of their wounds had time to heal before they died,
perhaps an indication that they were rounded up after battle and marched
back to the city where they were ultimately killed.
Other clues also hint that the victims hailed from diferent regions.
Variations in the shape of the victims' teeth also indicate that they were
from different population groups.
By analyzing the chemical composition of the victims' hair, Verano and his
colleagues determined that some of the dead had a diet rich in seafood,
indicating that they lived along the coast, while others appeared to have
lived at higher elevations.
The victims were buried individually or in small groups, not in true mass graves.
To Verano, this suggests that the victims represent "a few principal captives
from each episode" of conflict between the city and its enemies.news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0425_020426_mochekillings.html - 36k - Cached - Similar pagesThese valleys flourished with Moche life until approximately 1000 years ago when the Moche abruptly vanished.
According to Angela M. H. Schuster, the extinction of the Moche may have been caused by extreme flooding
and massive erosion, which may have been caused by tectonic activity nearby.
Because of the extent of the artifacts found in the royal tombs archeologists from UCLA have taken them out
of Peru and put them on tour in the USA. By doing this it has been possible for many people to learn about
the rich culture of the Moche. The question now is, where will the artifacts end up?
Recently, the Peruvians have been trying to bring them back, but they relied heavily on foreign funds for
the excavation. Because of this Peru is having a hard time recovering the artifacts.
It is only fair that the Peruvians should get their native artifacts back,
but with the question of money involved who knows where they will be laid to rest.
www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/anthro/asb222/articles/article8.html - 5k - Cached - Similar pagesGrim Rites of the Moche
Excavations at a pyramid site in northern Peru yield evidence of gruesome ritual sacrifice. [abstract]
Under the direction of Santiago Uceda of the University of Trujillo,
Steve Bourget of the University of Texas at Austin and his colleague
John Verano of Tulane University have discovered at the Pyramids at Moche
new evidence proving that the shocking scenes depicted in Moche art
are faithful representations of actual behavior, if not records of specific events.
Bourget and his team uncovered a sacrificial plaza with the remains
of at least 70 individuals--representing several sacrifice events-
-embedded in the mud of the plaza, accompanied by almost as many
ceramic statuettes of captives. It is the first archaeological evidence
of large-scale sacrifice found at a Moche site and just one of many
discoveries made in the last decade at the site.
In 1999, Verano began his own excavations of a plaza near that investigated by Bourget.
He found two layers of human remains, one dating to A.D. 150 to 250 and the other to A.D. 500.
In both deposits, as with Bourget's, the individuals were young men at the time of death.
They had multiple healed fractures to their ribs, shoulder blades, and arms suggesting
regular participation in combat.
They also had cut marks on their neck vertebrae indicating their throats had been slit.
The remains Verano found differed from those in the sacrificial plaza found by Bourget
in one important aspect: they appeared to have been deliberately defleshed, a ritual act
possibly conducted so the cleaned bones could be hung from the pyramid as trophies-
-a familiar theme depicted in Moche art.
www.archaeology.org/0203/abstracts/moche.html - 21k - Cached - Similar pagesTake care visiting the bog: Ancient Europeans practiced sacrifices too:
Pictures: Mystery of the Bog Bodies
Were they murdered, sacrificed to appease an ancient god, or simply killed by natural causes? New research is helping to unravel the puzzle of Europe's elaborately preserved swamp bodies.
www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0709/bog-bodies/bog-bodies.html?email=Inside31Aug07
Southern Moche
The Moche realm is now regularly divided in two separate zones although a
common cultural trajectory is assumed. The Moche political organization
may have been more complicated and involving more than one territorial state.
The purpose of this symposium is to look at old and new data related to the
Southern Moche and their southward expansion, considering it as a landmark
in the constitution of a State, which seat was located at the Huacas of Moche.
Assessing the Moche presence in the Viru, Chao, Santa, Nepeña and Casma
Valleys should provide new insights about this territorial expansion
and reveal organizational dynamics of the Southern Moche State.The participants, their texts & pictures.
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They Who Were About to Die.
For prisoners of the Moche, Huaca Cao Viejo's elaborate art
was likely among the last sights they saw.
Naked, bleeding, and bound with nooses, they were led into
the ceremonial plaza. Perhaps they heard the Pacific surf
rolling onto the beach in the distance; perhaps all they heard
was the pounding of their own hearts. Once inside they
witnessed one of history's most gruesome sacrificial rites.
A Moche priest adorned in gold slit their throats one by one.
Those in line who didn't turn away or faint saw a priestess
catch the blood in a golden goblet for the priest to drink.Scholars know about these ceremonies by studying Moche artwork, like
the frieze of naked prisoners discovered on Huaca Cao Viejo's plaza wall.
Bones of sacrifice victims—incorporated into the frieze and buried under
the plaza floor—show evidence of extreme torture before the grisly executions.
Still debated: Were the prisoners locals or foreigners captured in battle?...
www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0407/feature6/index.html - 26k -An ornately tattooed 1,600-year-old mummy unearthed in Peru could be a warrior queen of the violent Moche people.
The Moche didn't embalm their dead.
Most corpses decayed normally,
leaving bare bones as the only proof
of lives extinguished. In a very few
instances, though, nature and human
reverence worked together to preserve
the deceased as a mummy. This was
the fate of the tattooed woman whose
elaborately wrapped remains were
discovered last year at a ceremonial
site called El Brujo—the Wizard—
on the north coast of Peru.
A recent autopsy revealed that the
tattooed woman had borne at least
one child and died in her late 20s, but
no trace of what killed her was evident.Her untimely demise must have shocked her people, who laid her to rest in full regalia at the peak
of a temple where bloody sacrifices were performed (National Geographic, July 2004).
Her body was daubed with cinnabar—a red mineral associated with the life force of blood—
wrapped in layers of cotton cloth, and entombed in thick courses of adobe.
Then the dry climate of the Moche's desert realm desiccated her body.No other Moche woman like her has ever been found.
"Based on our preliminary study, we think she was a ruler,"
says archaeologist Régulo Franco, whose work is supported by Peru's
National Institute of Culture and the Augusto N. Wiese Foundation.
If so, she may revolutionize ideas about the Moche, whose leaders
were believed—until now—to be men..
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The Art Institute of Chicago: Art AccessMoche culture. Vessel Representing a Royal Messenger ...
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Moche Settlements
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Moche of Peru Ancient Peru: Media and Messages
October 21, 2005 - June 2007
The Moche offers a rare look at one of Peru's oldest civilizations
through its most central of art forms, ceramics. Over one hundred objects,
principally ceramics, from the Peabody Museum's permanent collections
will take center stage along with artifacts of stone, wood, metal, and
textiles and photographic panels of colorful murals and friezes.Understood principally through their ceramics, the exhibit examines
the imagery used by this ancient people and how it conveys their
everyday experience and cosmological beliefs, as well as their
relationship to earlier cultures and legacy..
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Moche Portraits from Ancient PeruChristopher Donnan's new book, the first wide-ranging, systematic study
of the Moche portraits. Drawing on more than 900 examples from museums
and private collections around the world—some 300 of which are illustrated
here in full color—Christopher Donnan documents how the portrait tradition
evolved, how the portraits were produced and distributed, who they portrayed,
why they were made, and how they were used in Moche society.
His analysis is supported by extensive archaeological evidence.dp/0292716222/sr=1-1/qid=1172711622/ref=sr_1_1/104-7510187-2771120?ie=UTF8&s=books
Amazon.com: Moche (The Peoples of America): Books: Garth Bawden
A series of discoveries on the North coast of Peru revealed stunning artistic
and technological achievements and caused a dramatic revision of the
sophistication and power of Moche society. This is the first book to describe
this ancient civilization in the light of the new evidence. ...
the author examines the integral relationship between the Moche people and
their physical world, their economy, and everyday life at all levels of society.
He describes the symbols of religion and myth and shows how these were
vital participants in rituals, often involving human sacrifice, that served
to maintain balance with the unpredictable forces of nature while at the
same time reinforcing the power of the rulers.CLOTH & CLAY == Let the Objects Speak == Moche Textile Fragment
This large textile fragment was produced by the Moche people of Peru's north coast around A.D. 650-850.
Scholars term textiles of this type "Moche-Wari" ...
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Moche Human Portrait Jar. Click on image to return to thumbnails page.
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Peruvian society's beliefs about sex, death, and the afterlife.
The Moche people who inhabited the north coast of Peru between approximately 100 and 800 AD
were perhaps the first ancient Andean society to attain state-level social complexity.
Although they had no written language, the Moche created the most elaborate system of
iconographic representation of any ancient Peruvian culture.
Amazingly realistic figures of humans, animals, and beings with supernatural attributes
adorn Moche pottery, metal and wooden objects, textiles, and murals.
These actors, which may have represented both living individuals and mythological beings,
appear in scenes depicting ritual warfare, human sacrifice, the partaking of human blood,
funerary rites, and explicit sexual activities.
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Moche-Wari peoples; Peru, Huarmey Valley (?) Cotton, camelid hair; H. 34 1/4 in. (87 cm)
Bequest of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. ...
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Moche Art and Archaeology in Ancient Peru
A major theme of the book is how the visual arts and political representation are connected in Moche culture.
The contributors pay special attention to the ...
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Peru Moche Pre-Inca Headdress Recovered in London. Treasure Found.
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Although roughly contemporary with the Nasca, the Moche culture (100 B.C.-700 A.D.)
was located on the north coast. Max Uhle discovered its distinctive ...
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Archaeologists working in northern Peru have proposed that victims of Moche sacrifice
represented either local Moche warriors defeated in ritual battles or ...
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c. Moche. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History.
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The Moche of Peru (AD 100–800) practiced two forms of bodily transformation: human sacrifice and dismemberment.
The sacrificial process converted the body into a sacred object and imbued it with meaning.
The second transformation – dismemberment – partitioned the cathected body into ritually efficacious body parts
suitable for use as offerings to the supernatural.
In contrast to classic perspectives on sacrifice, which focus on the act of immolation, I expand this perspective
to include post-sacrifice transformations, including dismemberment, consumption, and distribution.
Key Words: body parts • Moche • Peru • sacrifice... Key Words: body parts • Moche • Peru • sacrifice ...
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We suggest that the Moche sacrificial victims represent nonlocal warriors
captured in territorial combat with nearby competing polities. ...
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Archaeologists working in northern Peru have proposed that victims of Moche sacrifice represented either local Moche
warriors defeated in ritual battles or enemy soldiers captured in warfare with non-Moche or competing Moche polities.
Analysis of biodistances among eight Early Intermediate Period (200 BCAD 750) North Coast mortuary samples
indicates that the sacrificial victims from the Huaca de la Luna are the least similar to others and the most variable.
When iconographic analysis, mortuary treatment, and the available archaeological data are considered,
it appears that contrary to the prediction of the ritual-battle model the Huaca de la Luna sacrificial victims
were drawn not from the local Moche population but from a number of competing Moche polities.
This result has implications for the sociopolitical development of and relations among the Moche.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?id=doi:10.1086/431527 -The Nature of Moche Human Sacrifice
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The first... assumes that the victims were local Moche who participated...
The second... the Moche were engaged in warfare with non moche polities to the south & east...
The third ... that the sacrificial victims represent a number of culturally similar but independentfeuding polities, being enemy warriors captured ...
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The Moche culture, which flourished on the north coast of Peru between 100 B.C. and A.D. 700,
produced one of the most remarkable art styles of Pre-Columbian America. Although the Moche people
had no writing system, they left a vivid artistic record of their activities and their environment.
Their art illustrates their clothing, architecture, implements, super-natural beings, and a
multitude of activities such as warfare, ceremony, and hunting.
Although Moche art gives the impression of having an almost infinite variety of subject matter,
analysis of a large sample of it has suggested that it is limited to the representation of a
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Books: Moche Mug Shots
Review of Christopher Donnan's Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru.
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Gold backflaps were an important part of the royal costumes of the Moche elite ...
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Created: 10/28/2006 By: Kenneth Garrett. Options. Contact Owner.
HELP TOPICS. Image Detail Using Lightboxes Purchase Images. Group: Americas - Moche ...
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... süd- und mittelamerikanischen Indianer: Die Moche-Kultur. ... Die Moche - Kultur.
[Überblick] [Kunst und Architektur] [Religion] [Der Herr von Sipán] ...
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and Secondary Offerings of Human Bones on the Peruvian North Coast ...
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In the Moche culture of northern Peru (c.AD 100-800) people were buried according to the status
they held during their life and were sometimes accompanied ... Jean-François Millaire
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Professor Christopher Donnan explains how Moche portraiture developed, how portraits were made
and distributed, and how they functioned in Moche society. ...
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The Moche state dominated the entire northern coastal region of Peru from about 200 to ...
The Logan Museum possesses some very high quality Moche pieces. ...
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i64 Shelia G. Pozorski Figure ,x Map of the Moche Valley showing the ...
TABLE I Moche Valley animal remains: per cent of meat diet Species Padre Alto ...
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(Articles).(Abstract) from Latin American Antiquity in Reference ...
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The Moche lived in the barren stretch of desert lands of northern Peru ...
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The presence of the Moche Culture in the Nepeña Valley of the north coast of ...The site of Pañamarca represents the center of Moche power in Nepeña (Fig. ...
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Thursday, August 01, 2013
(Photo courtesy of Lisa Trever, University of California, Berkeley)
ANCASH, PERU—A small, feathered shield estimated to be 1,300 years old was found face down on a sloped bench or altar at the Moche site of Pañamarca. Measuring about ten inches in diameter, the surface of the shield is covered with red and brown textiles and yellow macaw feathers. About a dozen of the feathers remain, but Lisa Trever of the University of California, Berkeley, thinks that it may have originally been decorated with at least 100 feathers sewn on the surface in two or more concentric circles. She and colleagues Jorge Gamboa, Ricardo Toribio, and Flannery Surette want to know if the shield, made for ritual use, is connected to two temple murals depicting a “Strombus Monster,” a beast with both feline and snail characteristics, and an iguana-like creature. “What the exact relationship is between the deposition of the shield and the adjacent pictoral narrative is an active question,” Trever said.
http://archaeology.org/news/1157-130801-peru-moche-panamarca-shield
Department of Anthropology - Billman, Brian
Geomorphological investigations of prehistoric El Niño events in the Moche Valley
with Dr. Gary Huckleberry (Washington State University). ...
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Latin American Antiquity - Irrigation and the origins of the Southern Moche state
on the north coast of Peru. (Articles).(Abstract) - From the HighBeam ...
www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-96194950.html?refid=ency_botnm -Both important archaeological sites are situated on an ancient route from the Moche Valley
(in which we find the famous Huaca del Sol and the Huaca de la ...
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Moche Stirrup Spout Vessel with Portrait HeadAmong the most recognizable of the Moche ceramics are the stirrup spout ...
Moche stirrup spout vessel in the form of a portrait head, North Coastal Peru ...
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PDF] The Early Intermediate Period: The Moche
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recently, the Moche culture, one of the important EIP cultures, ...Andes F2003: The Early Intermediate Period: What did the Moche rulers rule? p. 2 ...
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has been applied to clean archeological MOCHE artefacts, unearthed at ...
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En el momento de su máxima expansión la civilización mochica se distribuyó entre los valles
de Lambayeque, Pacasmayo, Santa y Nepeña.
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The Moche Route is a tourist route between the Mochica archaeological monuments
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The Moche Provides links to sites, artifacts, textiles, burials and more ...
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Abstract In this essay I briefly review the history of Moche studies, the essential features of thisarchaeological culture of the North Coast of Peru (ca. 1900–1100 B.P.), and its general economy.I then present current issues, discussions, and debates on Moche regional political organization,religion, warfare, and their interrelations. I suggest that the interpretation of Moche art has been andthe interpretation of archaeology has lacked nuance. I question the proposal of warfare as
ritual,
that the temple mound complexes were centers of political power, that the elite buried in them were rulers,that the compounds and streets near them were cities, and whether proposals for a conquest Moche state are plausible.I suggest that these and other interpretations about the Moche are becoming accepted as factswithout considering alternative interpretations of the data and that much information is lacking.Rather than having reached a stage when we can synthesize concepts about Moche culture we are only justbeginning to understand it.Andes - Moche - politics - religion - warfare.www.springerlink.com/index/JJX70J8453T24537.pdf - Similar pagesPDF] Competitive Feasting, Religious Pluralism and Decentralized Power ...
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...environmental perturbations inaugurated the Late Moche era, and these developmentsappear to have resulted in the collapse of the Middle Moche state ...
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HOWEVER, it is my original finding that people from South America began to arrive on Easter Island sometime after A.D. 534. These people were Moche from ...
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Also, it is my original thesis that the first Ahu on Easter Island were constructed by the Moche during the latter half of the 6th century A.D. for ...
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CLOTH & CLAY == Let the Objects Speak == Moche Textile Fragment
Due to the sparseness of textile preservation in the region, the Moche are far better known ...
Moche ceramics, unlike those of most other Andean cultures, ...
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It is a pleasure to introduce this electronic version of "The Burial Theme in Moche Iconography,"
by Christopher B. Donnan and Donna McClelland. ...
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One of the first, and probably the best reasons why the Moche are important is that before ...
In fact, the Moche pre-dated the Inca by at least 1000 years. ...
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has done a masterful job of condensing and interpreting the great number of scholarly ...
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The first wide-ranging, systematic study of the Moche portraits,
three-dimensional ceramic vessels formed in the likeness of people's heads.
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http://diariocorreo.pe/nota/63656/descubren-antigua-entrada-a-huaca-de-la-luna-y-altar-de-relieves-policromados/
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