The art and archaeology of the Moche
Subtitle: an ancient Andean society of the Peruvian north coast
By: edited by Steve Bourget and Kimberly L. Jones.
Contributors: Bourget, Steve, 1956-; Jones, Kimberly L., 1979-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780292718678
Subjects: Mochica Indians -- Antiquities -- Congresses; Mochica art -- Congresses; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Peru -- Moche River Valley -- Congresses; Moche River Valley (Peru) -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers originally presented at a symposium at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin in November 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Iconography meets archaeology / Elizabeth P. Benson; title: Sacrifices and ceremonial calendars in societies of the central Andes : a reconsideration / Anne Marie Hocquenghem; title: Ulluchu : an elusive fruit / Donna McClelland; title: Moche masking traditions / Christopher B. Donnan; title: Convergent catastrophe and the demise of Dos Cabezas : environmental change and regime change in ancient Peru / Michael E. Moseley, Christopher B. Donnan, and David K. Keefer; title: Forensic iconography : the case of the Moche giants / Alana Cordy-Collins and Charles F. Merbs; title: Moche forms for shaping sheet metal / Christopher B. Donnan, David A. Scott, and Todd Bracken; title: Moche art style in the Santa Valley : between being "a la mode" and developing a provincial identity / Claude Chapdelaine; title: The priests of the bicephalus arc : tombs and effigies found in Huaca de la Luna and their relation to Moche rituals / Santiago Uceda; title: The Moche people : genetic perspective on their sociopolitical composition and organization / Izumi Shimada ... [et al.]; title: Communality and diversity in Moche human sacrifice / John W. Verano; title: Art and Moche martial arts / Jeffrey Quilter; title: Moche textile production on the Peruvian north coast : a contextual analysis / Jean-Francois Millaire; title: Spiders and spider decapitators in Moche iconography : identification from the contexts of Sipán, antecedents and symbolism / Nestor Ignacio Alva Meneses; title: The third man : identity and rulership in Moche archaeology and visual culture / Steve Bourget.