Dedication and Termination Rituals in Southern Moche Public Architecture

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ID4373702
AuthorsJorge Gamboa Velasquez, Jorge Gamboa (0000-0001-6214-6724, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume26
Issue1
Pages87-105
Publication date2015-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-6635 • E-ISSN: 2325-5080
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7183/1045-6635.26.1.87
OpenAlexW2333503925
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited41

This paper assesses a set of ideological practices related to the growth and abandonment of ceremonial and administrative buildings from the southern Moche area of the north coast of Peru. The archaeological record at Huacas de Moche, El Brujo, and Guadalupito, three of the main settlements in the region, includes evidence for the deposition and manipulation of animal and human bodies, burning, and the alteration of wall iconography. These activities took place in the period between A.D. 300-750, and were related to either the construction and renovation of structures or the abandonment of monumental built spaces. The analysis of this data contributes to a better understanding of Moche ritual dedicatory behavior, contextualizing it in a broader perspective on place making and the marking of time in precolumbian South America

Abandonment (legal · Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Geography · Human settlement · Iconography · Ideology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Visual arts · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Latin American history and culture · Architecture · History · Law

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