Moche Culture

The Moche are one of Peru’s best known ancient cultures who built towering cities and produced some of the most memorable art of the Americas. See how Moche culture is as complex as it is mysterious.

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[indigenouspodcast]

I love learning about my ancestors!!! The Moche artwork displayed here is truly impressive among the Americas. Loved seeing the images in Sipán too! Thank you for this great video and all the work you put into them!

[martinn.]

I have to admit I had never heard of the Moche, but that pottery is simply incredible. I had no idea something like that existed.

[DanDavisHistory]

Fascinating people and their art is incredible. I'm so intrigued by their warfare and their religious beliefs. Great video, thank you.

[theghosthero]

One thing I love is that the moche clearly depicted captured warriors from the area between them and the Recuay culture, generally shown with more facial hair and round dangling earings. The iconography show Moche man fighting warriors wielding stone mace, used in the Highlands but not by the moche, and wielding slings, unlike the moche who used spear throwers. Finally these foreigners wear on their back or front some sort of bags covered with/containing heads, potentially shrunken heads of enemies, a recurring motif in Recuay art of warriors. So will one shouldn't go as far as to say their is an attested war between the two cultures, the Moche definitely fought very similar cultures and even knew that they used poporos, which are not common in Moche's hand but are seen used by these foreigners.

[enixxe]

This is such a ridiculously high quality educational Youtube channel.

[harry]

I love learning about my ancestors, makes me feel more connected, I feel like I have more of an identity around my families past the more I learn. Going to la huaca de la Luna was a crazy experience

[jackelewish]

This video is so extremely well done. Bravo👏👍 you've gained a new subscriber for life!

[thecaveofthedead]

Loved it as always. This channel is a gem. One thing I really took from the Wengrow/Graeber book is that societies are so varied that we should suspect that our initial hunches that a culture fitted into a neat, well-known pattern known from the last few millennia of Eurasian culture - such as patriarchal king-led states - is more likely to be proven wrong than not. Societies show themselves to be almost as varied as they are numerous.

I wonder if the particular style of Moche pottery was associated with a discredited form of rule or society-structure, such that people abandoned it for other things even if they retained the skills to continue it.

[DanielALeary]

.I love your channel. I share these episodes often. Many thanks

[jakemoeller]

Moche art is so expressive, stunning portraits. Wow!

[RovexHD]

The portrait sculptures are amazing, absolutely wonderful !

I’m thinking of making a wood carving of one.

[huascar]

I am so appreciative of this video documentary series. I am a student of pre-European history and these documentaries are excellent! I lived in el Peru and was fortunate to visit so many of the sites referred to here. There is a museum in Lima which has a display of Moche artifacts, especially their exquisite pottery. There is a special room of Moche pottery which requires one to be over 18 years to enter because the pottery was quite frank in their depiction of sexual acts.

[frogue]

Thank you for the video
I'm happy that atleast some people now know about one of the many cultures of my country Perú
:D

[atlasaltera]

Took you a while to get this live! Glad to see it out :)

[kronoel]

Can never lose your canteen when it literally has your face on it : D

[Diogolindir]

They are fascinating. I got a high interest for cultures that loved their metalworks.

[jwhite]

came over from History with Kayleigh. Thanks for this video as I have always been interested in preSpain America

[mphillips]

Oo I hope you’ll do Chinchorro culture! I’ve heard about the mummies, but considering that they’re a pretty flashy headline, that’s literally all I know about them.

[EresirThest]

Fascinating stuff. You should absolutely do an episode on Francisco de Orellana's journey on the Amazon

[pimpompoom]

Well done, I've always been impressed by the realism in the Moche ceramic figures. Have you also done-or do you plan to do-an overview of the Sipan culture? I'm interested as they were probably the preeminent metallurgical culture in the Andes and probably all the America's. Thanks.