Calendario Nazca

Art and
Archaeology
of the Moche
the

An Ancient Andean Society
of the Peruvian North Coast
edited by steve bourget
and kimberly l. jones

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library of congress cataloging-in-publication data
The art and archaeology of the Moche : an ancient Andean
society of the Peruvian north coast / edited by Steve Bourget
and Kimberly L. Jones. — 1st ed.
p.
cm.
Papers originally presented at a symposium at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin
in November 2003.
Includesbibliographical references and index.
i sbn 978-0-292-71867-8 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Mochica Indians—Antiquities—Congresses. 2. Mochica
art—Congresses. 3. Excavations (Archaeology)—Peru—Moche
River Valley—Congresses. 4. Moche River Valley (Peru)—
Antiquities—Congresses. I. Bourget, Steve, 1956– II. Jones,
Kimberly L., 1979–
f3430.1.m6a78 2008
985'.1601—dc22
2008027539

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Contents

P reface

viii

8. Moche Art Style in the Santa Valley:
Between being “à la Mode” and Developing
a Provincial Identity 129

s teve bourget
Introduction

ix

c laude chapdelaine

s teve bourget and kimberly l. jones
1. Iconography Meets Archaeology 1
e lizabeth p. benson

9. T he Priests of the Bicephalus Arc: Tombs
and Effigies Found inHuaca de la Luna
and Their Relation to Moche Rituals 153
s antiago uceda

2. Sacrifices and Ceremonial Calendars
in Societies of the Central Andes:
A Reconsideration 23
a nne marie hocquenghem
3. Ulluchu: An Elusive Fruit

i zumi shimada, ken-ichi shinoda,
walter alva, steve bourget, claude
chapdelaine, and santiago uceda

43

d onna mcclelland
4. Moche Masking Traditions

10. The Moche People: Genetic Perspective
on Their Sociopolitical Composition and
Organization 179

67

c hristopher b. donnan

11. Communality and Diversity in
Moche Human Sacrifice 195
j ohn w. verano

5. Convergent Catastrophe and the Demise of
Dos Cabezas: Environmental Change and
Regime Change in Ancient Peru 81
m ichael e. moseley, christopher b.
donnan, and david k. keefer
6.Forensic Iconography: The Case
of the Moche Giants 93
a lana cordy-collins and
charles f. merbs
7. Moche Forms for Shaping Sheet Metal 113
c hristopher b. donnan, david a. scott,
and todd bracken

12. A rt and Moche Martial Arts

215

j effrey quilter
13. Moche Textile Production on the Peruvian
North Coast: A Contextual Analysis 229
j ean-françois millaire
14. Spiders and SpiderDecapitators in Moche
Iconography: Identification from the Contexts
of Sipán, Antecedents and Symbolism 247
n éstor ignacio alva meneses
15. T he Third Man: Identity and Rulership
in Moche Archaeology and Visual Culture 263
s teve bourget

Index

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c hapter two

Sacrifices and Ceremonial Calendars
in Societies of the Central Andes
AReconsideration
anne marie hocquenghem, centre national de recherches scientifiques

Abstract
In the Prehispanic iconography of the central Andes, two particular forms related to human death draw particular attention: prisoners with their throats cut, and supplicating men and women. Returning to a method of iconographic analysis and
interpretation proposed in the 1970s, in this chapter I...