Why was the Moche Pottery Important?

You are excavating a high status burial at a Moche site along the coast of Peru. You pull out a ceramic--?

• a ceramic of a very distinctive style. A) The ceramic you have uncovered has which of the following characteristics? a. It is shaped like a saddle b. it depicts a hand with an eye in the center of the palm c. it has stirrup-like handles d. it depicts a feathered serpent e. none of the above B. The subject matter also makes this ceramic distinctly Moche. The ceramic... a. depicts Inca slaves making the massive road system. b. is explicitly sexual showing a man having sex with a llama c. is shaped like a puma d. is a fake, the moche did not make pottery e. none of the above.

• Answer:

  A. - c. Moche pottery is characterized in part by stirrup-like handles. B - c. The Moche used animals as the subject for much of their pottery.