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The Worlds of the Moche on the North Coast of Peru (Hardcover)
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The Worlds of the Moche on the North Coast of Peru (Hardcover)
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The Moche, or Mochica, created an extraordinary civilization on the
north coast of Peru for most of the first millennium AD. Although
they had no written language with which to record their history and
beliefs, the Moche built enormous ceremonial edifices and
embellished them with mural paintings depicting supernatural
figures and rituals. Highly skilled Moche artisans crafted
remarkable ceramic vessels, which they painted with figures and
scenes or modeled like sculpture, and mastered metallurgy in gold,
silver, and copper to make impressive symbolic ornaments. They also
wove textiles that were complex in execution and design. A senior
scholar renowned for her discoveries about the Moche, Elizabeth P.
Benson published the first English-language monograph on the
subject in 1972. Now in this volume, she draws on decades of
knowledge, as well as the findings of other researchers, to offer a
grand overview of all that is currently known about the Moche.
Touching on all significant aspects of Moche culture, she covers
such topics as their worldview and ritual life, ceremonial
architecture and murals, art and craft, supernatural beings,
government and warfare, and burial and the afterlife. She
demonstrates that the Moche expressed, with symbolic language in
metal and clay, what cultures in other parts of the world presented
in writing. Indeed, Benson asserts that the accomplishments of the
Moche are comparable to those of their Mesoamerica contemporaries,
the Maya, which makes them one of the most advanced civilizations
of pre-Columbian America.
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