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Moche civilization flourished on the north coast of Peru between approximately AD 100 and 800. Although the Moche had no writing system, they left a vivid artistic record of their beliefs and activities in beautifully modeled and painted ceramic vessels, remarkable objects of gold, silver, and copper, sumptuous textiles, and carved and inlaid bone, wood, and stone. Tens of thousands of these objects can be seen today in museums and private collections throughout the world. Unfortunately, nearly all of them have been looted from Moche tombs by grave robbers, and thus there is no record of the grave, or the archaeological site, or even the valley from which they came. This lack of information severely limits what could have been learned about the Moche if the graves had been excavated archaeologically and their contents systematically recorded. This study focuses on five extraordinary Moche tombs that were archaeologically excavated at the site of Dos Cabezas. The tombs are remarkable not only for the wealth of objects they contained but also because we know how the tombs were constructed, how they relate to one another both spatially and temporally, and what individuals they contain

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Author

Christopher B. Donnan

Publisher

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology; Brand: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press; The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press; Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781931745529

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science

Updated

2026-03-24