Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture

by Izumi Shimada

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292723377
• ISBN13: 9780292723375
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 11.0"