...Alan R. Sawyer Moche Occupation of the Santa Valley, Peru . By Donnan Christopher B. . Berkeley , 1973 . University of California Press . Maps. Tables. Illustrations. Appendices. Bibliography . Pp. ix , 190 . Paper . $8.50 . Textiles of Ancient Peru and their Techniques...

...Theodore D. McCown Moche: A Peruvian Coastal Community . By Gillin John . [ Smithsonian Institution, Institute of Social Anthropology, Publication No. 3 .] ( Washington, D. C. : Government Printing Office , 1947 . Pp. vii , 166 . Twenty-six plates, 8 figs., 1 map .) Copyright...

... Press 1996 Over the last decade, archaeological studies of the Moche (or Mochica) culture of Peru’s north coast have experienced an unprecedented renaissance. Although the recent work was stimulated by the discovery of royal tombs at Sipán and the subsequent unearthing of exquisite murals at Huaca...

..., 350 pp. Paper , $69.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 This volume is split into two parts, the first detailing historical engagement (mainly from the nineteenth century on) with the Moche site of Pañamarca on the north coast of Peru (which contains murals dating from ca...

..., all served up in an abominable style that at times scarcely resembles the English language. The author’s ignorance of his subject is evident in Chapter I, “The Rediscovery of the Kingdoms. ’ ’ Reading it, one would assume that most of Moche-Chimu archaeology had been done by Charles III of Spain...

... by papers on the mummification practices of the kin-based Chinchorro society by the Chilean archaeologist Mario Rivera, the tombs of the San Agustín chiefdoms in Colombia by Robert D. Drennan, the Nazca by Patrick H. Carmichael, and state societies on the Moche by Christopher Donnan. An article by John W...

... and supplication of their ancestors and other supernatural forces in sacred spaces. Collectively, the authors cover the Moche, Sican, Chimu, and Inca cultures, with a few mentions back to the Wari and a few remarks forward to Spanish colonial times and practices. For this long time period the authors focus...

... designs that represented their own cultural identities. In the next chapter, Sarahh Scher discusses the results of her semiotic analysis of human and supernatural dress on Moche materials. Scher concludes that, in contrast to many other Amerindian societies, the Moche use of similar costume elements...

... nuanced discussion of ancestor worship and its role in the quotidian life of lineages ( ayllus ). Some readers may also object to her frequent references to ethnography and archaeological interpretations of the Chavín, Cupisinique, Tiwanaku, Moche, Paracas, Wari, and Nazca cultures to authorize her...

.... The authors claim that Aritama represents an earlier stage in the current of development of creole culture, defined on the basis of Gillin’s Moche . Thus they do well in warning that Aritama is not typical of other Andean regions of Colombia where (as postulated by the present reviewer) a Hispanoid rather...

... Heyerdahl and Antonio Suy Suy seems to have been very fruitful. This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Lambayeque as a separate political entity, no longer an invisible part of Moche and Chimú history. The Norwegian-Peruvian project at Túcume adds a wealth of archaeological...

... (with the long continuity of the Moche-Chavín cultural tradition on the coast) is different from south Peru (which seems to have been dominated by the highlands)? Perhaps one needs to treat central Peru separately as well, with the Pachacamac cult centered on the coast being influential at a later time, while...

..., “The Birdmen of the Andes,” sets the stage by offering an overview of avian imagery and anthropomorphic images of winged creatures during the pre-Columbian period. Lara includes a representative sample of pre-Hispanic “birdmen” that includes Chavín carvings, Paracas embroideries, Moche ceramic vessels...

... productive and capable of supporting large populations and as such may provide models for modern sustainable agriculture. However, he is no believer in the ‘ecological Indian,’ noting that environmental degradation occurred in the past and that some strategies, such as the construction of the Chicama-Moche...

... the development of Andean domestic architecture and residence patterns. Moore discusses how major archaeological projects in the region, such as the Virú Valley, Chan Chan–Moche Valley, and Teotihuacan Valley Projects, provided the theoretical framing for studies claiming that Andean residential patterns...

... in the altiplano to document shifting relationships and political powers vis-à-vis the region's telluric deities. Other essays—including those by Carlos Rengifo on late Moche craft production at Cerro Castillo, Costin on hybrid Chimu-Inca vessels, Michael Callaghan on Late Preclassic ceramics from the Maya...

... that the convent had only used about 35,000 pesos out of its 544,000-peso endowment to purchase clothing for the nuns and thus was not in especially dire financial circumstances. Vicente Antonio de los Ríos and Miguel José de Moche, who prepared the bishopric’s report, cited Sister María Anna’s figures showing...

...,” in Representing Aztec Ritual: Performance, Text, and Image in the Work of Sahagún , ed. Eloise Quiñones Keber (Boulder: Univ. Press of Colorado, 2002), 212–18. 41 See Manuel Arboleda, “Representaciones artísticas de actividades homoeróticas en la cerámica Moche,” Boletín de Lima 16, 17, 18 (1981): 98–107...

... over inheritance gained greater popularity over time. Thirty years later, a case from the northern Peruvian coastal pueblo of Moche operated in reverse: Jacinto Asavache first presented himself as an ordinary native and attempted to claim lands as his own by arguing that he recently had paid royal...

... ANP.RII,5 1582 371 ANP.RII,5 1591 323 MMR 1600 251 306 113 657 1327 ANP.RXXII,57 1609 117 ANP.RXXII,57 Santa Moche 1602 45 12 12 121 190 VE,650 Guanape y Chao 1575 324 1088 ALPB,254 1602 162 172 12 257 603 VE,650 Santa 1575 123 585...