Recent Advances in Moche Archaeology |
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Authors: | Claude Chapdelaine |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Anthropology,Université de Montréal,Montréal,Canada |
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Abstract: | The discovery of the royal tombs at Sipán in 1987 propelled Moche archaeology to the forefront of Andean studies. In the last
decade, the study of Moche political organization and ideology through public architecture, cultural remains, funerary patterns,
and iconography has forced the revision of previous conceptions about Moche state formation, urbanism, and the functioning
of this complex society. Major advances in iconography, internal organization of urban centers, temples and domestic architecture,
craft production, and mortuary patterns are embedded in a new chronology that supports a longer development and a more gradual
collapse. The recognition of Moche as the first state in South America is still valid, but its monolithic character is rejected
in favor of several autonomous polities. The number and size of potential Moche states are currently debated, as is the role
of warfare and ideology in Moche state formation. |
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