Southern Moche :
Understanding the First Expansionist State on the North Coast of Peru

Session Abstract:

The Moche realm is now regularly divided in two separate zones although a common cultural trajectory is assumed. The Moche political organization may have been more complicated and involving more than one territorial state. The purpose of this symposium is to look at old and new data related to the Southern Moche and their southward expansion, considering it as a landmark in the constitution of a State, which seat was located at the Huacas of Moche. Assessing the Moche presence in the Viru, Chao, Santa, Nepeña and Casma Valleys should provide new insights about this territorial expansion and reveal organizational dynamics of the Southern Moche State.

The participants:

Chapdelaine, Claude, Université de Montréal: The Moche Occupation of the Lower Santa Valley and the nature of the Southern Moche State (Text) (Map) (Table 1)

Bourget, Steve, University of Texas at Austin: A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Moche Presence in the Virú Valley (Text) (Figures)

Millaire, Jean-François, Université de Montréal: Gallinazo - Moche interactions at Huaca Santa Clara, Virú Valley (north coast of Peru) (Text) (Figures)

Pimentel, Victor, Université de Montréal: Comparing Mochica Households from Moche and Santa Valleys, North Coast of Peru (Text) (Figures)

Bernier, Hélène, Université de Montréal: Body Ornaments from Moche and Santa Valleys:
Functions and Symbolism (Text) (Figures)

Kennedy, Greg, École Polytechnique de Montréal and Chapdelaine, Claude, Université de Montréal: Neutron Activation Analysis of Moche Ceramics from the Moche Site and the Lower Santa Valley (Text) (Figures)

Gagné, Gérard, Université de Montréal: Moche Humans Remains from the Lower Santa Valley (Text) (Figures)

Taillon-Pellerin, Alexandra, Université de Montréal: Ceramic Production at Guad-88: A Secondary Moche Site of the Lower Santa Valley (Text and Figures)

Dumais, France-Éliane, Université de Montréal: Textiles and Cultural Identity in the Lower Santa Valley
(Text) (Figures)

Fournier, Julie, Université de Montréal: Fiber Artefacts on Moche Sites in the Lower Santa Valley (Text) (Figures)

Bélisle, Véronique, Ph. D. Program, University of Michigan: The transition from the Early Intermediate Period Mochica to the Middle Horizon Tanguche in the Santa Valley (Text) (Figures)

Proulx, Donald, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Pañamarca and the Moche Presence in the Nepeña Valley Revisited (Text) (Figures)

Chicoine, David, Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia, UK: The Moche in the Nepeña Valley: A View from Huambacho (Text and Figures)

Dionne, Genevieve, McGill University, Social Variation in Diet: An Overview of Botanical Remains at Huancaco, Viru Valley (Text) (Figures)

Castillo, Luis Jaime, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru: Discussant

Shimada, Izumi, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: Discussant (Text)