Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Elizabeth Cropper
  • Introduction / Joanne Pillsbury
  • Moche mimesis: continuity and change in public art in early Peru / Jeffrey Quilter
  • Investigations at Huaca de la Luna, Moche Valley: an example of Moche religious architecture / Santiago Uceda
  • The growing power of a Moche urban class / Claude Chapdelaine
  • Rituals of sacrifice: its practice at Huaca de la Luna and its representations in Moche iconography / Steve Bourget
  • War and death in the Moche world: osteological evidence and visual discourse / John W. Verano
  • Moche ceramic portraits / Christopher B. Donnan
  • The Moche in the Chicama Valley / César Gálvez Mora & Jesús Briceño Rosario
  • Political economy and patronage at Ceroo Mayal, Peru / Glenn S. Russell & Margaret A. Jackson
  • Late Moche urban craft production: a first approximation / Izumi Shimada
  • Innovation and resplendence: metalwork for Moche lords / Julie Jones
  • The royal tombs of Sipán: art and power in Moche society / Walter Alva
  • Labretted ladies: foreign women in northern Moche and Lambayeque art / Alana Cordy-Collins
  • Town and country in late Moche times: a view from two northern valleys / Tom D. Dillehay
  • The symbols of late Moche social transformation / Garth Bawden
  • The last of the Mochicas: a view from the Jequetepeque Valley / Luis Jaime Castillo.