Archaeology: Guide to the Moche

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Guide to the Moche Oct 24th 2011, 08:32 Recently, I ran across a terrifically comprehensive article by scholar Claude Chapdelaine on the Moche in the Journal of Archaeological Research, and I used it as a starting point to update my Guide to the Moche and beef up my overall coverage. Moche Portrait Head. This portrait vessel, with its commanding features, depicts a prominent ancient Moche ruler from northern Peru. The Moche people were masters of sculpture and frequently depicted elite individuals through sculpture, often creating record of their childhood, adulthood and even death. John Weinstein � The Field Museum The Moche [AD 100-750] (aka Mochica) were urban dwellers, who built vast cities, enormous pyramids and an extensive canal system on the narrow strip of land between the northern Pacific coast of Peru and the Andes mountains. They are best known, no doubt about it, for their amazing ceramic expertise; but their art and ritual history is as rich and varied as any society I've ever come across. Their large cities with dual pyramid-temples are open to the public, although I shudder to say that, since tourism sometimes signals damage to come. I'll say this: be gentle when you go. I couldn't even scratch the surface of all the information that Chapdelaine has compiled, so if you are a student of the Moche, you ought to get your hands on the original and fan out from there. In the meantime, here is my revised Guide to the Moche, as well as other new and newish Moche materials. Guide to the Moche Moche Archaeological Sites Moche Capital City of Sipan (photo essay) Chapdelaine C. 2011. Recent Advances in Moche Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research 19(2):191-231.

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