In this book, Lisa Trever develops an interdisciplinary methodology ("archaeo-art history") to interpret artworks located in deep history, long before the use of written scripts. In order to "read" these murals, scholars must be sensitive to the material evidence and visual perc…
Introduction: Image encounters -- Mural origins and coastal corporealities -- Ancestral divinities, Norcosteño design, and the aesthetics of replication in Moche mural art (200-650 CE) -- Siting narratives: Moche mural painting and the condensation of a medium (650-850 CE) -- Ar…
Moche murals of northern Peru represent one of the great, yet still largely unknown, artistic traditions of the ancient Americas. Created in an era without written scripts, these murals are key to understandings of Moche history, society, and culture. In this first comprehensive…
"In this book, Lisa Trever develops an interdisciplinary methodology ("archaeo-art history") to interpret artworks located in deep history, long before the use of written scripts. In order to "read" these murals, scholars must be sensitive to the material evidence and visual per…
German archaeologist Max Uhle did the first excavations works at Huaca de la Luna between 1898 and 1899, long before archaeology was a modern discipline.
