MOCHE OCCUPATION IN NORTH MARGIN OF THE LOWEST MOCHE VALLEY, NORTH COAST OF PERU
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15381/arqueolsoc.2012n25.e12357Keywords:
North Coast of Peru, Moche Valley, settlement hierarchies, agricultural expansion.Abstract
This article discusses the settlements involved in agricultural expansion on the north side of the Moche Valley between the 5th and 8th centuries AD. While the characteristics of the Moche occupation in this area are not completely known, they do yield important data about irrigation systems, road networks, as well residential and monumental architecture. Furthermore, the local material culture, particularly pottery, serves to create a relative chronology of the sector. In this study, which is based on sites survey and excavations in various locations in the Lower Moche Valley, we revise proposals regarding a long-term relation between the north side of the lower valley and processes of political centralization in the area around the Huacas de Moche. Specifically, we focus on the history of a series of communities and ceremonial centers within a landscape that acquired a new role for all of its occupants.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2012 Jorge Gamboa Velásquez, Jason Nesbitt
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
THE AUTHORS RETAIN THEIR RIGHTS:
a. The authors retain their trademark and patent rights, and also on any process or procedure described in the article.
b. The authors retain the right to share, copy, distribute, perform and publicly communicate the article published in the Arqueología y Sociedad (for example, place it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in the Arqueología y Sociedad.
c. The authors retain the right to make a subsequent publication of their work, to use the article or any part of it (for example: a compilation of their works, notes for conferences, thesis, or for a book), provided that they indicate the source. of publication (authors of the work, journal, volume, number and date).
