Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture / Izumi Shimada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shimada, Izumi, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Pampa Grande, the largest and most powerful city of the Mochica (Moche) culture on the north coast of Peru, was built, inhabited, and abandoned during the period A.D. 550-700. It is extremely important archaeologically as one of the few pre-Hispanic cities in South America for which there are enough reliable data to reconstruct a model of pre-Hispanic urbanism. This book presents a "biography" of Pampa Grande that offers a reconstruction not only of the site itself but also of the sociocultural and economic environment in which it was built and abandoned. Izumi Shimada argues that Pampa Grande was established rapidly and without outside influence at a strategic position at the neck of the Lambayeque Valley that gave it control over intervalley canals and their agricultural potential and allowed it to gain political dominance over local populations. Study of the site itself leads him to posit a large resident population made up of transplanted Mochica and local non-Mochica groups with a social hierarchy of at least three tiers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. The Mochica and Pampa Grande in Andean Prehistory

2. Archaeology of the Mochica Culture: Growth and Characteristics

3. Mochica Land and Culture

4. Mochica Culture before Pampa Grande

5. Mochica Organizational Features

6. The Establishment of Moche V Pampa Grande

7. Urban Landscape at Pampa Grande: Architecture and Sociopolitical Significance

8. Urban Subsistence and Economy at Moche V Pampa Grande

9. Art and Religion

10. The Demise ofMoche V Pampa Grande

11. Moche V Legacies and Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)

ISBN:

9780292751422

0292751427

OCLC:

1475129225