26 Facts About Moche culture

Rather, they were likely a group of autonomous polities that shared a common Moche culture, as seen in the rich iconography and monumental architecture that survives today.

Moche culture society was agriculturally based, with a significant level of investment in the construction of a sophisticated network of irrigation canals for the diversion of river water to supply their crops.

The Moche culture are particularly noted for their elaborately painted ceramics, gold work, monumental constructions, and irrigation systems.

Salinar Moche culture reigned on the north coast of Peru from 200 BC–200 AD.

Two distinct regions of the Moche culture civilization have been identified, Southern and Northern Moche culture, with each area probably corresponding to a different political entity.

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Southern Moche region, believed to be the heartland of the culture, originally comprised the Chicama and Moche valleys, and was first described by Rafael Larco Hoyle.

Moche culture pots have been found not just at major north coast archaeological sites, such as Huaca de la luna, Huaca del sol, and Sipan, but at small villages and unrecorded burial sites as well.

Coloration of Moche culture pottery is often simple, with yellowish cream and rich red used almost exclusively on elite pieces.

The Moche culture wove textiles, mostly using cotton and wool from vicuna and alpaca.

Moche culture discovered both electrochemical replacement plating and depletion gilding, which they used to cover copper crafts found at Loma Negra in thin layers of gold or silver.

An important discovery in the context of Moche culture metallurgy was the discovery of the Tombs of Sipan in 1986.

The rulers of the Moche culture were incredibly adept at portraying and perpetuating their power through art, which is well-exemplified by the Moche culture metallurgy.

Moche culture art continues the tradition of anthropomorphic figures as well as characters with prominent fangs, although the fangs are usually less pronounced than Chavin art and not present quite as often.

Analysis of the items found at the tombs of Sipan has found that the Moche culture were able to maintain an almost completely uniform thickness between 1 and about.

Researchers of the Moche culture agree that the emergence of the Moche culture is related to the intensification of the production of corn, cotton, beans and squash, among other agricultural products, which allowed the development of a regional Moche political economy in the Valley of Moche from the north coast of Peru during the Early Intermediate Period .

That factor, far from discouraging the establishment of communities, was the trigger for the construction of an outstanding Moche culture that developed engineering works thatThey interconnected various river valleys, with the aim of irrigating desert territories.

Excavations in plazas near Moche culture huacas have found groups of people sacrificed together and the skeletons of young men deliberately excarnated, perhaps for temple displays.

Beyond royalty, the Moche culture can be divided into a general upper and lower class, and each class can be further stratified into smaller groups.

Those lowest in the Moche culture hierarchy were buried in a simple hole near their household; platform mounds with an abundance of goods were awarded to the highest-ranking members of society.

Moche culture polities survived beyond 650 AD in the Jequetepeque Valley and the Moche culture Valleys.

Chronologically, the Moche was an Early Intermediate Period culture, which was preceded by the Chavin horizon, as well as the Cupisnique, and succeeded by the Huari and Chimu.

Moche culture pottery has been found near Ica, but no Ica-Nazca pottery has been found in Moche culture territory.

Coastal Moche culture co-existed with the slightly earlier Recuay culture in the highlands.

Excavations in 1938 and 1939 by Rafael Larco Hoyle saw the development of the first interpretations of Moche culture, ranking the Moche as being "high on the list of advanced societies" as a civilization.

Moche culture listed traits of the Moche culture such as "exquisite artworks" and the "creation of large scale facilities and public works" as a testament to this ranking.

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In 2005, a mummified Moche culture woman known as the Lady of Cao was discovered at the Huaca Cao Viejo, part of the El Brujo archaeological site on the outskirts of present-day Trujillo, Peru.