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Moche

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Moche

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Mask of copper and gold alloy with eyes of shell, found in the Huaca de la Luna, Moche River valley …
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Dominant civilization on the northern coast of present-day Peru in the 1st–8th centuries AD. The name comes from the great site of Moche in the Moche River valley, which was apparently the capital of the Moche peoples. Their settlements extended along northern Peru's hot, arid coast from the Lambayeque River valley south to the Nepeña River valley. They irrigated extensively, and their agriculture supported many urban centres, which featured stepped pyramids. They were skilled metalworkers and produced sophisticated craft goods, including fine mold-made pottery. The cause of their demise is unknown. See also Andean civilization.



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In "Art and Knowledge," the three case studies focus on meaning and memory; one study is on the universe of cultural information embedded within Moche ceramics and revealed through archaeological excavations and art historical analysis; another on the transmission of memory and history through the painting of a clan house in Papua New Guinea; and a third on the integral role that katsina figures play in Hopi lives past and present.
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Night's beginning, "They called him Moche the Beadle," can be found several pages into Un di velt.
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Plebeian complainants identified the gentry as men and women "of great wealthe moche Frended and allyed"; "men of gret possessione and substaunce and well frended and alied"; "men of greete substaunce & Riches and greetly alyed and Frended"; men "of greate myght substaunce and power & .
Fear, hatred and the hidden injuries of class in early modern England by Wood, Andy / Journal of Social History
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