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Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture
University of Texas Press, 1994 eISBN: 978-0-292-75142-2 | Paper: 978-0-292-72337-5 | Cloth: 978-0-292-77674-6 Library of Congress Classification F3430.1.M6S55 1994 Dewey Decimal Classification 985.1401
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: Land settlement patterns | Mochica Indians | Peru | Shimada, Izumi | Urban residence See other titles from University of Texas Press |
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Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Texas Press, 1994
eISBN: 978-0-292-75142-2
Paper: 978-0-292-72337-5
Cloth: 978-0-292-77674-6
eISBN: 978-0-292-75142-2
Paper: 978-0-292-72337-5
Cloth: 978-0-292-77674-6
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.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
