Seventy years on from its discovery, the Moche site of Pañamarca in northwestern Peru continues to surprise archaeologists. Excavations at the 1,600-year-old settlement picked up pace in 2018 with the ...
Along the north coast of Peru, the Moche people lived from around 200-800 AD. Since little is known about the kinds of food they ate, two archaeologists analyzed micro-fossils in the dental plaque of ...
Papers originally presented at the Fourth D.J. Sibley Family Conference held at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin in November 2003. Contents Iconography meets ...
Foreword / Joanne Pillsbury -- Many Moche models : an overview of past and current theories and research on Moche political organization / Luis Jaime Castillo B. and Jeffrey Quilter -- Maya political ...
The Pañamarca archaeological site in north-central Peru may have been under excavation for 70 years, but it continues to bear discoveries that illuminate the rituals and customs of the Moche, a ...
When Christopher Donnan began studying the art created by Peru’s Moche culture more than 50 years ago, he wasn’t sure how much it reflected ancient reality. From about A.D. 200 to 850, the Moche lived ...
Graves containing the gruesome remains of four members of a mysterious civilisation - including a mum and child - which ruled part of a country for 600 years have been unearthed. Archaeologists also ...
A 1950 photograph taken at Pañamarca shows Mural C shortly after it was exposed by American archaeologist Richard Schaedel. The painting depicts eight figures—likely warriors and priests—standing as ...
So far this week, we've been in Damascus handling the first Islamic coinage, and in Suffolk with the great Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo. The famous helmet found there leaves no doubt that it ...
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