Moche Ceramic Of Huaca

They were the religious and ceremonial centre of the moche culture which lived around trujillo from about 100 800 ad.

Moche ceramic of huaca. The huge ceremonial mound had four tiers and was constructed using over 140 million adobe bricks. Huaca del sol y la luna are two temples the temple of the sun and the temple of the moon just outside trujillo in peru. Huaca de la luna temple or shrine of the moon is a large adobe brick structure built mainly by the moche people of northern peru. The northern peruvian moche empire lasted from about 100 to 700 a d.

The temples were built out of adobe bricks and each would ve been about 50 metres high. The moche built the huaca de la luna and huaca del sol which are examples of how advanced the early civilizations of peru were in their building techniques art and ceramics. Along with the huaca del sol the huaca de la luna is part of huacas de moche which is the remains of an ancient moche capital city called cerro blanco by the volcanic peak of the same name. And was centered at a complex called huacas del moche located about three miles from modern day trujillo near the mouth of the.

The moche civilization also known as the mochica flourished along the northern coast and valleys of ancient peru in particular in the chicama and trujillo valleys between 1 ce and 800 ce. Moche pots have been found not just at major north coast archaeological sites such as huaca de la luna huaca del sol and sipan but also at small villages and unrecorded burial sites as well. The remains of the huaca del sol pyramid at moche peru. Reaching a height of 50 metres the site was used for religious and state ceremonies.

Moche mural in huaca de la luna peru national geographic moche ceramics the moche art style is one of the most representational non abstract styles of art in the ancient andes and this is most easily seen in their spectacular ceramics which makes use of fine line painting fully modelled clay naturalistic figures and stirrup spouts to represent social activities war metalwork weaving and sex. Their pots include life sized portrait heads of individuals and three dimensional representations of animals and people. The moche state spread to eventually cover an area from the huarmey valley in the south to the piura valley in the north and they even extended their influence as far afield as the chincha islands.