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Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture

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Pampa Grande was the largest and most advanced city of the fifth and final phase of Moche culture. It was rapidly built from scratch with construction technology imported from the south in conditions of rapid cultural and social change amid cataclysmic, deteriorating, environmental conditions. This book is a portrait of that New Town in its historical and regional context with a sketch of its violent downfall marking the enigmatic apocalypse of Moche culture.

Shimada emphasizes the material underpinnings that formed the economic basis of Moche culture with much detailed physical evidence. Many substantial details of daily life emerge in the book, not least of which is that Pampa Grande kept llamas in great numbers to provide transport services, as well as for food, sacrifice, and clothing. Shimada compares Moche sites of workshops or primitive factories that manufactured domestic ceramics or that brewed alcoholic maize beer for distribution, with modern equivalents operated by local people. Various maps provide detailed diagrams that contextualize towns, temples, mines, and gigantic irrigation works. Urban maps contrast the central areas of other cities, including Galindo, with selected districts of Pampa Grande. Floor plans of major temples and smaller private buildings give a delicious sense of being able to step along the narrow passageways into the physical past of this terminal Moche city.

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