ISBN: 9972934136 9789972934131

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Page count: 308

Handsomely illustrated catalog comprising a sampling from the stellar collection of the archeological museum founded in 2010 by archaeologist Rafael Larco Hoyle, exhibiting for the first time their most valuable treasures including funerary attires, ceramics, jewelry, sculptures, musical instruments and textile pieces that span from 2nd century B.C. to the arrival of the Spanish conquerors. The Mochica culture was the first in the middle Andean pre-Columbian region to impose a hierarchical, military and religious order and developed a unitary culture that maintained unified the zone during the next 8 centuries. It is considered the mother culture in South America. The collection includes close to 220 treasures, mostly from the burial sites of Mohican governors, with a special attention to the spectacular treasure discovered in the burial site of a Chimú cacique (14th-15th centuries) that included a pectoral, shoulder protectors, crown and earrings, all in gold. Includes texts by Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, Ulla Holmquist y Kristof Makowsky, amongst others.