Pampa Grande, the largest and most powerful city of the Mochica
(Moche) culture on the north coast of Peru, was built, inhabited,
and abandoned during the period A.D. 550-700. It is extremely
important archaeologically as one of the few pre-Hispanic cities in
South America for which there are enough reliable data to
reconstruct a model of pre-Hispanic urbanism. This book presents a
"biography" of Pampa Grande that offers a reconstruction not only
of the site itself but also of the sociocultural and economic
environment in which it was built and abandoned. Izumi Shimada
argues that Pampa Grande was established rapidly and without
outside influence at a strategic position at the neck of the
Lambayeque Valley that gave it control over intervalley canals and
their agricultural potential and allowed it to gain political
dominance over local populations. Study of the site itself leads
him to posit a large resident population made up of transplanted
Mochica and local non-Mochica groups with a social hierarchy of at
least three tiers.
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