Archaeologists study and compare styles and themes depicted in moche art for clues about lifestyle belief and cultural variation among these ancient people.
Moche ceramic vessels.
600 ce according to the chronology made by rafael larco hoyle in 1948.
Other times it is tridimensional forming the vessel shape itself 82 1 30.
One particularly famous moche portrait vessel is known as the huaco retrato mochica.
For many years the foundation of moche chronology was a five phase ceramic temporal seriation of moche style vessels established by larco hoyle 1946 1948.
Moche ceramic pot vessel in the form of a recumbent anthropomorphic peasant playing the quena an andean flute.
Photo by nathan benn wagner edu.
These phases were verified by archeological strata.
The decoration is sometimes painted on the smooth surface of vessels 67 167 4.
The ceramic portrait is also an example of a stirrup spout vessel of a moche ruler.
The portrait was made during the late moche period ca.
Moche is fairly well defined temporally although its origins are less clear than its demise.
Moche skilled ceramists produced a great variety of exquisitely decorated vessels.
Mochica style this modelled ceramic shows a priest or shaman engaged in a curing ritual or praying over a deceased person.
The shaman wears a feline headdress and large disc earrings.