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Description of  Image Encounters: Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History

Moche murals of northern Peru represent one of the great, yet still largely unknown, artistic traditions of the ancient Americas. Created in an era without written scripts, these murals are key to understandings of Moche history, society, and culture. In this first comprehensive study on the subject, Lisa Trever develops an interdisciplinary methodology of archaeo art history to examine how ancient histories of art can be written without texts, boldly inverting the typical relationship of art to archaeology. Read more