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Moche art and archaeology in ancient peru 2001 national gallery of art 2002 126.
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Ucla fowler museum of cultural history 1999.
Donnan is professor of anthropology at ucla.
Most of their settlements were located in a series of valleys whose rivers cut across the coastal plain carrying water from the mountains to the sea.
Most were probably broken while in use and.
Using the medium of three dimensional ceramic vessels that could have contained liquid moche artisans typically formed the heads of the individuals they wished.
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He has researched the moche civilization of ancient peru for more than fifty years conducting numerous quantify excavations of peruvian archaeological sites.
It is likely that only a small percentage of the ceramic portraits produced by the moche were ultimately put in graves.
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Donnan is an archaeologist.
Moche art of peru.
Using the medium of three dimensional ceramic vessels that could have contained liquid moche artisans typically formed the heads of the individuals they wished to portray though sometimes they presented full figures with realistic portrait faces.
Donnan the moche the moche inhabited an arid coastal plain bordered on the east by the andean cordillera and on the west by the pacific ocean.
Of all the ancient civilizations that flourished in the americas only one perfected true portraiture of living people and produced it in quantity the moche who inhabited the north coast of peru between approximately ad 100 and 800.
Considered one of the world s foremost experts on the moche he has studied this civilization for more than four decades combining the systematic analysis of moche art with numerous archaeological excavations in peru.
Donnan is professor of anthropology at ucla.
Donnan has traveled the world photographing moche artwork for purposes of publication recording both museum artifacts and private collections that would otherwise be unavailable to the public.
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