"In a special precinct dedicated to ritual sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna on the north coast of Peru, about seventy-five men were killed and dismembered, their remains and body parts then carefully rearranged and left on the ground with numerous offerings. The discovery of this l…
"In a special precinct dedicated to ritual sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna on the north coast of Peru, about seventy-five men were killed and dismembered, their remains and body parts then carefully rearranged and left on the ground with numerous offerings. The discovery of this l…
In a special precinct dedicated to ritual sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna on the north coast of Peru, about seventy-five men were killed and dismembered, their remains and body parts then carefully rearranged and left on the ground with numerous offerings. The discovery of this la…
A cultural landscape -- The Moche -- The Plaza 3A sacrificial site -- Platform II -- A ritual ecology of power -- Children and warriors -- Human sacrifice and rulership -- Violence in the rise of social complexity
"In a special precinct dedicated to ritual sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna on the north coast of Peru, about seventy-five men were killed and dismembered, their remains and body parts then carefully rearranged and left on the ground with numerous offerings. The discovery of this l…
"In a special precinct dedicated to ritual sacrifice at Huaca de la Luna on the north coast of Peru, about seventy-five men were killed and dismembered, their remains and body parts then carefully rearranged and left on the ground with numerous offerings. The discovery of this l…
by Belting, Hans, Blier, Suzanne Preston, Bourget, Steve, Hay, Jonathan, Brett-Smith, Sarah, Clark Conference, Williamstown), Berlo, Janet Catherine, Errington, Shelly, Freedberg, David, Grimshaw, Anna, Okoye, Ikem Stanley, Pellizzi, Francesco, Phillips, Ruth B.
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by Bourget, Steve, Reycraft, Richard Martin, Bawden, Garth, Blom, Deborah E., Symposium Us and Them: Archaeology and Ethnicity in the Andes, Chicago, Ill, Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, Ill.), Symposium Us and Them, (Archaeology and Ethnicity in the Andes ; (Chicago, Ill.)
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The striking Moche iconography is viewed as a portal to their way of life, their customs and their religious beliefgts. The main objectives of this exhibition is to explorethe Mochica concepts related to death, fertitlity, liminality and afterlife, and funerary riturals in Moche…
