| | Moche PeruCruises, Transport, Trujillo north Peru, Tours in 5 languages, Huacas de Moche, Sipán, Guides & books, Ecuador Peru route, Chan Chan links, Festivals – Marinera, Primavera & Caballos de paso Peru Biodiversity & Birds, Sican, National Geographic & other links, TV & Football, Google Earth maps www.huacadelaluna.org.pe/ Cached - Similar pages HUACAS DEL SOL Y DE LA LUNA ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPLEX
 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.
www.huacadelaluna.org.pe/en/HuacadelaLuna.asp
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.  |
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Moche  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.
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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...
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...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.
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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 ...
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The field school is part of the Moche Origins Project directed by Brian Billman ...
Cost does not include airfare to Peru, transportation to Trujillo, ...
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MOCHE ICONOGRAPHYRemnants of monumental architecture in the Moche Valley, Peru. ...
These pages about Moche iconography, created primarily for teaching by Professor Billman,
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THE BURIAL THEME IN MOCHE ICONOGRAPHYFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
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 http://es.youtube .com/watch?v=RfPCUk3zSS4&feature=related |
Northern Mochewww.elcomerc ioperu.com. pe/EdicionImpres a/Html/2007- 04-30/ImEcNacion al0715188. htmlAmazon.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. ...
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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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[PDF] National Geographic News @ nationalgeographic.com 15 Feb 2001 Dos Cabezas Tomb of "Giants" Unearthed in Peru For 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, ...
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www.el comercioperu.com.pe/EdicionImpresa/Html/2007-04-29/ImEcMundo0714831.html  Looted treasure found in UK 
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 Un catálogo con 1.173 piezas www.el comercioperu.com.pe/EdicionImpresa/Html/2007-04-29/ImEcMundo0714653.html 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/  EFE. Se ofertan bellos objetos como este. La salida a subasta de 48 piezas arqueológicas peruanas en las casas Sothebys 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 una situación 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. |
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"Moche ceramics, the best known of ancient Peruvian artifacts, are among the finest ... Moche Stirrup spout Vessel with Portrait Head 200 - 800 AD ...
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 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.
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ON 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?
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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.
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Gold & Sacrifice: Treasures of Ancient Peru - Frieze Moche fine ...  25 October 2003 to 26 January 2004 |
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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 pages These 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.
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Grim Rites of the MocheExcavations 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.
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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. | |
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 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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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?...
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Mystery Mummy - Mystery of the Tattooed Mummy, Moche, Feature ... 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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Article by Tarmo Kulmar discussing the religion of the Moche, a pre-Columbian Peruvian civilisation, on the basis of archaeological findings.
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Moche culture. Vessel Representing a Royal Messenger ... The Moche people of ancient Peru are well-known for the lively scenes they painted on ceramic ...
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 Moche of Peru Ancient Peru: Media and Messages
October 21, 2005 - June 2007The 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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Christopher 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.
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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 BawdenA 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. |
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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THE EPIC STORY OF HOW HUMANS MADE ART, AND ART MADE US HUMAN.
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Moche Human Portrait Jar. Click on image to return to thumbnails page.
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As archaeologists have excavated these Moche sites, they have unearthed some of the most fabulous pottery and jewellery ever to emerge from the ancient ...
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Not all study of Moche civilization is limited to the ultra-violent manner ... One idea central to understanding the role of the Moche religion and the role ...
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A pioneering analysis of Moche visual iconography that sheds new light on this ancient
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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The Chicama-Moche Intervalley Canal <longitude>-79.05453830573697</longitude> ...
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Professor Donnan's lecture focuses on his recent study of Moche portraits. ... Professor Donnan will explain how Moche portraiture developed, how portraits ...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Permanent Collection 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. Peru Moche Pre-Inca Headdress Recovered in London. Treasure Found.
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Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology 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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Sacrificing: Moche Bodies -- Hill 8 (3): 285 -- Journal of ...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.
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