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Tanesha Prately
The discovery of the royal tombs at Sipn in 1987 propelled Moche archaeology to the forefront of Andean studies. In the last decade, the study of Moche political organization and ideology through public architecture, cultural remains, funerary patterns, and iconography has forced the revision of previous conceptions about Moche state formation, urbanism, and the functioning of this complex society. Major advances in iconography, internal organization of urban centers, temples and domestic architecture, craft production, and mortuary patterns are embedded in a new chronology that supports a longer development and a more gradual collapse. The recognition of Moche as the first state in South America is still valid, but its monolithic character is rejected in favor of several autonomous polities. The number and size of potential Moche states are currently debated, as is the role of warfare and ideology in Moche state formation.
I thank first Gary Feinman and T. Douglas Price for requesting this overview. This challenge was facilitated by the generosity and complicity of many colleagues who shared over the years their data and ideas: Steve Bourget, Luis Jaime Castillo, Christopher Donnan, Jean-Franois Millaire, Jeffrey Quilter, Izumi Shimada, and especially Santiago Uceda, who was instrumental in allowing me to start a new scientific orientation at Huacas of Moche site in 1994. I acknowledge the efforts of my colleagues and friends Brad Loewen and Francis Allard for the corrections of the first version of the article. I appreciate the insightful comments made by Garth Bawden, Georges Gumerman, and four anonymous reviewers. Nevertheless, I remain solely responsible for the ideas expressed in this article as well as any errors and omissions.
The Moche culture is admired for having been an advanced civilization for its time, which was able to develop in an arid zone. It seems that there are still more pages to be written about its history, especially after the recent findings in the archaeological complex of Huaca Santa Rosa de Pucal, in the Lambayeque region.
Eleven tombs of elite figures, mostly women, have been discovered next to a Wari enclosure in the form of a letter D. This discovery has brought up interesting insights into the relationship between the Mochica culture and the Wari culture, and is being closely followed by both national and foreign researchers.
The archaeologists of the Tumbas Reales Museum were behind this marvelous discovery that was announced to the public last December. The research work was part of a study on the expansion of the Wari, a pre-Columbian Andean culture that expanded throughout the territories of the northern coast, and on the fate of the elites of the Moche culture.
The area of the discovered tombs corresponds to a cemetery for the elite of the Middle Mochica period. The curious thing is that the characteristics of the tombs are different from the traditional ones of the local culture. "This tells us that it would not be limited to a single Mochica population," said Edgar Bracamonte, director of the Huaca Santa Rosa de Pucal Archaeological Project.
A characteristic of Moche culture is that burials show bodies in a south-north position, the head pointing south and the feet to the north. However, in this discovery a new pattern caught the attention of archaeologists; as some tombs are positioned in an east-west direction. In addition, there are some very noticeable markers in the lower area, which obviously signify something. This is another new aspect in the mode of burial.
It is important to note that funeral rituals were significant ceremonial activities for the Mochicas, who believed in life after death. Members of the upper class, such as governors or priests, were buried with offerings, jewelry, textiles, and ornaments typical of the higher hierarchy, as was the case of the Lord of Sipn, whose tomb was discovered by Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva in 1987.
The bodies found by the specialists will be the subject of much study, since one was found with a metal scepter and another with a covered burial chamber, something that was only reserved for the more elite people.
They also found another tomb that contained three individuals. However, the main interest lies in the fact that the tombs found are contemporary to the Old Lord of Sipn (Mochica hierarchy, between 300 and 400 years AD) and, as Bracamonte explains, at that time people were customarily buried alone. Further excavations will help unveil more on this topic.
The archaeologists also discovered a Wari ceremonial site at Huaca Santa Rosa, in the sector of Plain 3. This space probably corresponds to the Wari culture since it is shaped like a D, a characteristic pattern of their temples. In 2018, another monument was found in the same place, which once again raised the question of what the fate of the last Mochicas was.
The recent finding, however, is larger and older. Given these conditions, it could be the first established Wari site in the Pucal area. In this same sense, the deterioration of its architecture could indicate that its final days were troubled.
The Mochica culture developed between the first and eighth centuries AD, and extended its territory through the valleys of the Jetepeque and Lambayeque rivers, between the regions of Cajamarca and La Libertad.
On the North Coast of Peru, ancient households were constitutive social and economic units in community endurance and regional political change. Although the key role exchange networks played in Late Moche cultural continuity is well established in Moche archaeology (particularly for San Jos de Moro in the Jequetepeque Valley), community endurance strategies exhibited at economically insulated sites and the role water management played in Cajamarca territorial arrogation and local autonomy have not been fully explored.
By contrast, archaeological models of rupture, such as those that characterize sociopolitical change, are predominantly rooted in event-based perspectives of the past (Badiou 2005; Deleuze 2007). Borrowing from ecological models, these analyses have primarily focused on identifying the material correlates of emerging complexity, collapse, and (sometimes) regeneration (Faulseit 2016; Holling 1973; Holling and Gunderson 2002; Redman 2005; Schwartz and Nichols 2006). Such studies often rely on variations in elite material culture, which magnifies the visibility and importance of epochal change.
Domestic contexts provide an important counterpoint to elite-derived models of sociopolitical transformation. Households tend to function on a different temporal scale than prestige arenas. Unlike the moments of transformative rupture that often accompany macropolitical change, the opportunities and challenges faced by households in their daily maintenance are generally below the level of the catastrophic. Rather, societal collapse is more often a political disruption than a demographic loss (Dillehay 2001; Railey and Reycraft 2008). Moreover, the material culture of domesticity is more stylistically conservative than the prestige goods on which relative chronologies are usually based. Consequently, households often resist the cause-and-effect characterizations that are the hallmark of archaeological narratives of collapse and regeneration.
Tom D. Dillehay (2001) and Edward R. Swenson (2004) have each argued for a Late Moche date of canal construction, based on radiocarbon dates and relative ceramic chronologies at hinterland sites. The association of sectional canal management with particular social groups is well established in the Andes (Netherly 1984) and is a common feature of many irrigation systems cross-culturally (Adams 1960; Fernea 1970). Given that the Late Moche Period was also characterized by increased fortification, they argue that these individual canals and their separate intakes were originally conceived as (or eventually became) the resources of politically autonomous communities.
Beyond chronological exactitude, the underlying question in this debate is whether irrigation of the northern Jequetepeque Valley emerged from political unity or fragmentation. In this chapter, I address this chronological question. My primary interest in Jequetepeque canal networks, however, has less to do with the original impetus for canal construction than with what role canal networks played in community endurance during and immediately after the Moche collapse.
Newly established ritual exchange networks, emanating from San Jos de Moro, fostered greater cultural continuity among participating hinterland settlements (Castillo Butters 2010). Intricately painted fineline vessels associated with veneration of the Moro priestess have been found at sites throughout the valley (Johnson 2008, 2011; Swenson 2008, 2015; Swenson and Warner 2012). These wares are recovered most often in ceremonial or mortuary contexts, including within some huaca communities, along with mold-impressed face-neck jars that depict more generalized Moche religious imagery (Swenson 2006, 2008). Thus hinterland settlements engaged with regional symbols of power while simultaneously developing and reaffirming their own ancestral community narratives.
If San Jos de Moro elites used existing ceremonial networks to organize irrigation management (during either the Middle Moche or the Late Moche Period), we might expect that all settlements located along these canal networks would have access to SJM fineline wares. Moreover, if elites occasionally mobilized communities under their influence to address shared opportunities and challenges (such as an influx of highland settlers or climatological instability), we might expect corresponding similarities between elite and hinterland material culture during periods of intensified interaction.
Before addressing these issues at the site of Talambo, it is helpful to briefly outline the shared opportunities and challenges faced by all Late Moche communities in the Jequetepeque Valley, as well as elite strategies of endurance.
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