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The Ancient Moche of Trujillo

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Archaeological Heritage in a Modern Urban Landscape

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From AD 300 to 800, the societies of the North Coast of Peru adopted the monumental and portable art style now known as Moche. The Moche cultural tradition incorporated a complex system of visual communication that reproduced the worldview of the time and a plethora of human and supernatural characters. This part of the book explores how the archaeological fieldwork and the appeal of Moche art have contributed to the advancement of research on this ancient Pre-Columbian society, which has caught the attention of researchers and the general public at a level until recently reserved for the Maya, Aztec, and Incas. It is also presented a review of the archaeological research conducted at Chan Chan, the capital city of the Chimú Kingdom that ruled the North Coast from AD 1000 to 1470.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The data reported so far for occupation of the northern Lower Moche Valley during the Paijanense period (10,000–6000 BC) come from La Cumbre, a lithic station located to the northwest of Cerro Cabras (Ossa and Moseley 1971). In 1998, the author and his colleague Niel Pajuelo observed at Quebrada San Idelfonso, El Porvenir district, the presence at surface of bifacial stone artifacts and shell middens, elements indicative of another site of the Paijanense tradition.

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    After the Chan Chan-Moche Valley Project, most excavations conducted at Chan Chan were organized by the Peruvian state. These archaeological interventions involved research and rescue excavations as well as conservation works in the monumental sector and zones affected by modern infrastructure. Although only partially published, those initiatives produced new data on the origins and functions of the site (Narváez 1989; Uceda et al. 1980).

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Gamboa, J. (2015). The Ancient Moche of Trujillo. In: Archaeological Heritage in a Modern Urban Landscape. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15470-1_2

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