There are not many interesting things about Moche.
from wikipedia
The Moche civilization flourished in northern Peru from about 200 CE to 700 CD. Years as expansive as 300 BCE to 1000 CE are sometimes described as the era of the Moche.
Pottery of Moche:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Moche_pottery01.jpgMoche pottery is some of the most varied in the world. They used molds in order to mass produce huge quantities of it. But despite this, they had a large variation in shape and theme. Virtually all vegetables and important activities are documented in their pottery, including war, sex, metal work, and weaving.
They also seemed to be obsessed with individuality. Every one of the 100,000,000 bricks in the
Huaca del Sol had a
maker's mark. （太强了，一亿块砖！） Important persons would have vases made to resemble their heads. The portrait vases also show the personality of the subject: some are shown laughing, others in deep thought, others angry, etc.
Religion:
Moche worship featured a figure called the decapitador, mostly depicted as a spider, but also depicted as a winged creature or a sea monster. When the body is included it is always shown with one arm holding a knife and another holding a head by its hair. (恐怖）
Demise:
Studies of ice cores drilled from glaciers in the Andes reveal climatic catastophe between 550 to 600 CE when it is thought that coastal areas were hit by 30 years of floods and rain (
Mega El Niño), which were then followed by 30 or more years of drought. Recent evidence uncovered by American Archeologist
Tom Dillehay has shown that Moche civilization survived beyond 650 CE and later settlements are characterised by fortifications and defensive works. Finding no evidence of foreign invasion, this suggests that a period of unrest followed the climatic changes as the Moche civilization tore itself apart.
Interactions with other culture:
The Moche was an
Early Intermediate culture that co-existed with the
Ica-Nazca culture（我们应该也看看这个文明）. They were preceded by the
Chavín horizon and succeeded by the
Huari and
Chimú. They are thought to have had some limited contact with the Ica-Nazca culture because they mined
Guano for fertilizer in Ica-Nazca territory. Moche pottery has been found near Ica, but no Ica-Nasca pottery has been found in Moche territory.
后话：
Mochica was the language spoken in the area when the
Conquistadors arrived, but there is no indication that this was the language spoken by the Moche, so scientists still call them the Moche after the location of the primary archaeological site. There is some evidence they were the same people as the later culture known as Chimú.
Huaca del Sol：
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Huaca_del_Sol_southeast.jpgThe Huaca del Sol is an adobe brick temple built by the Moche civilization on the coast of what is now Peru. The temple is one of several ruins found near the peak of Cerro Blanco, in the coastal desert near
Trujillo, Peru.
The number of different maker’s marks on the bricks suggests that over a hundred different communities contributed bricks to the construction of the Huacas.
The Huaca del Sol was composed of four main levels.
Lord of Sipan:
http://agutie.homestead.com/files/Sipan.htmThe Lord of Sipan was revealed to the world in 1987. He reigned approximately 200 A.D. and died about 40 years of age. Sipan is located in the northern part of Peru, close to the coast, in the middle of Lambayeque Valley, 35 Kms. at east of Chiclayo.
Four tombs have been found in Sipan's Huaca Rajada, the huaca is a mausoleum built by the Moche culture that ruled the northern coast of
Peru from the time of Christ to 700 AD, centuries prior to the Incas.
It has been dubbed “The Golden Wonder” by Times magazine, and National Geographic has published an article named “Discovering the Richest Tomb in the New World”. It represents, without a doubt, the most important archaeological finding of recent times, and the collection has traveled throughout the world in a series of impressive expos in Europe, the USA and Japan.
Spiderman:
One of the most spectacular items found in the tomb of the "Old Lord of Sipan" was a necklace composed of ten gold beads, each depicting a spider in the center of its web with a body in the form of a human head.
总体来说Moche文明可以用来作为写玄幻小说的背景，王国里的人都极度个人化，一个半人半神的load of Sipan，宏伟无比的四层神庙，Warrior，Spiderman，由于天灾，60年无尽的灾难与生灵涂炭，60年结束，残余的人民继续互相抢夺厮杀，最终文明灭绝。许许多多年后，现代的人类还能发现讲着不同语言，却与古Moche人有着若有若无联系的少数人。
但是大家注意这个图还有一个奇怪的地方，就是“飞机”的头部有一个眼睛！这也许说明这样飞翔的庞然大物（用于用google map就可以看出这幅图比上面两个图大得多）其实是某种生物。这样形状，而且有眼睛的图形在Nazca高地上出现了很多：
2）更小一些类似于幼体的东西：
（从google map上你可以很容易得找到这些图案，并且对比他们的大小）
4）飞行的证据：两个飞行物的相撞。注意到相撞画面所表现出来的火花飞溅的感觉，而不是血液飞溅的液体感觉，这种飞行物也许带有一定的金属性（人造？）。
