Ceramics In The Moche Culture

Their art unlike that of most andean cultures is naturalistic and rich in imagery inviting us to explore their world.

Ceramics in the moche culture.

La leche reque and zaña. Indeed fineware is the offering par excellence in burials of any social status as a marker of moche social identity. Their pots include life sized portrait heads of individuals and three dimensional representations of animals and people. Until recently these works of art were thought to be essentially funerary offerings as they were documented in a great number of burials.

Nov 1 2020 explore burt thompson s board moche ceramics followed by 162 people on pinterest. The northern moche region includes three valley systems. The upper piura valley around the vicús culture region. The best example of pottery produced before the days of the inca empire is found in the ceramics produced by the moche or mochica culture that thrived from 100 to 700 ad in the northern peruvian coast.

The lower lambayeque valley system consisting of three rivers. Produced on the north coast of peru between a d. Moche architects and artists raised spectacular adobe platforms and pyramids and created exquisite ceramics and jewelry. Ad 100 750 was a south american society with cities temples canals and farmsteads located along the arid coast in a narrow strip between the pacific ocean and the andes mountains of peru.

The moche or mochica are perhaps best known for their ceramic art. The lower jequetepeque valley system. 200 and 800 the artistic creativity and variety from realistic to abstract from ritualistic to practical puts this pre inca culture s pottery in a sophisticated class all its own. Scholars do not agree about the various functions of moche decorated ceramics.

The moche culture ca. The best known cultural heritage of the moche or mochica civilizationof the northern peruvian coast is their pottery. See more ideas about precolumbian archaeology ancient art.