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Title: Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture

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Language:        English

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Length:        323 Pages
Weight:        3 Pounds
Height:         11.3 Inches
Width:          8.8 Inches
Thickness:    1 Inches



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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 not only of the site itself but also of the sociocultural and economic environment in which it was built and abandoned. Izumi Shimada argues that Pampa Grande was established rapidly and without outside influence at a strategic position at the neck of the Lambayeque Valley that gave it control over intervalley canals and their agricultural potential and allowed it to gain political dominance over local populations. Study of the site itself leads him to posit a large resident population made up of transplanted Mochica and local non-Mochica groups with a social hierarchy of at least three tiers.



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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture and it was written by Izumi Shimada. This edition of Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is October 1994 and it has a suggested retail price of $60. There are 323 pages in the book and it was published by Univ of Texas Pr. The 10 digit ISBN is 0292776748 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780292776746. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.