2006 FIELD SEASON

During the final season of my dissertation research we began excavations in a new residential area, which we called Domestic Complex 1.  This complex had many of the same types of rooms and basic organizational features as Complex 2, but also had evidence of craft production in several rooms of the structure.  We found stamps and molds for making jars and figurines, as well as several copper knives and many nicely painted fineware vessels.  Several of the figurines and their molds depict the Labretted Lady, who is a new icon that shows up during the late Moche Period on the North Coast.  She is significant because there are not a lot of female icons in Moche art, but becomes a very prominent feature in the art of the later Lambayeque culture.

Map of Domestic Complex 1
   

2006 Crew

Living Room in Domestic Area 1
   

Copper knives

Storage rooms
   

Carol cleaning a profile

Screening
   

Topography Crew: Krishan, Jesus, Jose, and Michael

Jose mapping with a Total Station
   

Photo courtesy of Rubio Family

Figurine fragment
   

Figurine mold

Face mold
   

Labretted Lady figurine

Ceramic fragment with owl face
   

Ceramic fragment with bean design

Florero Fragment
   

Photo courtesy of Museo Larco Herrera

Ceramics fragment with geometric pattern
   

Face-neck jar

Spindle whorls (for spinning thread)
   

Gourd fragments

Corn cobs

 

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