ArchaeoEd S3E2 The Moche

[@jerryandnancywertzbaugher7778]

In ‘02, after our second visit to Bolivia, Nazca, Cuzco and the Sacred Valley, we found ourselves in Lima with two weeks on our hands. We decided to bus north along the coast up to Chiclayo. Wow. The new museum dedicated to the Lord of Sipan had just been opened. Double Wow. I had never even known about the Moche or Chimu cultures nor heard about the ruins of Chan Chan. Peru became much bigger than we had realized. We have quite enjoyed all your courses. Especially South America and Central America where we have visited a majority of the sites you’ve featured. And now with this great podcast we can relive our own adventures time and again. Thanks for all you’ve done. Double thanks for keeping it going😘.

[@archaeoedpodcast]

That sounds like an amazing adventure! I can only imagine your surprise to find all those pyramids out there. I'm grateful for your interest in my work and really want this podcast to grow into something amazing, but I need more support to make it happen. If you would consider supporting ArchaeoEd through Patreon, I'd be in your debt. Just go to www.patreon.com/archaeoed to learn more about it. Thanks! Ed

[@ericataylor5042]

Thankyou Ed... I'm very appreciative of you and the work you've done and continue to do. Thankyou for sharing it, and allowing contribution. It's very interesting to me, and I'll keep following you.

[@specialoops9717]

Thanks for these great podcasts, Ed! Besides being incredibly fascinating, having this very accessible resource is important to help counter the commonly expressed idea that "people were still rubbing sticks together in the Americas when the Europeans arrived." A must for anyone combing uTube for lectures on ancient American cultures.

[@archaeoedpodcast]

Thank you for your kind words! It's a primary goal of my life's work to help the ancient civilizations of the Americas get the credit they deserve.

[@russmcbride2740]

Ed, I love your podcasts. I have watched as many of your Great Courses lectures that I could find. You have a wonderful easy-going, yet straightforward style that. You are believable and entertaining all at once. Thank you for all you do.

[@archaeoedpodcast]

Thank you so much! I love what I do and never forget that I couldn't do it without kind folks like yourself.

[@johnmanno2052]

Absolutely fascinating! And I appreciate the depth and sensitivity of your perception and analysis.

[@archaeoedpodcast]

thank you!

[@lastofmygeneration]

Thank you for your deep, insightful commentary!

[@ESLINGERART]

Another great episode!

[@kylehedrick9653]

These podcasts are great. Thank you for doing them.

[@archaeoedpodcast]

Thank you!

[@kylehedrick9653]

@@archaeoedpodcast Out of my curiosity, but do you, or have you given any thought to doing anything on the Old Copper Culture? They have always been one of my favorite lost-to-time cultures in the New World. I visited the Oconto site, and like many ancient cultures that existed in pre Colombian era, naught but a breathy whisper of these people exist now. Down through the ages, we have copper artifacts, a lineage of trade and technology to cold work this native copper all the way to Mississippian cultures. Anyway...just thoughts or your take on the overall influence on later cultures?

[@archaeoedpodcast]

@@kylehedrick9653 Hi Kyle! That's not a bad idea, though I've never looked into that culture beyond passingly. I agree that as North America's first metal workers they are very important. Do you perhaps have some suggestions on the best books or recent studies? If I had those to update my knowledge, it would make it more likely that I could do an Old Copper Culture episode.

[@warrendourond7236]

I thought I commented on this video when I first saw it. I guess I was simply transfixed by its many revelations. I’ve been travelling to Peru for almost 2 decades now. I absolutely agree with everything you say. I believe some where in Peru this religion arose and spread throughout most of South America. I believe it even influenced the beliefs of central and North America. Like the Peruvian’s being Zoroastrians and the Mississippians being Islam. I believe in a Western Hemisphere history that is equally complex and dynamic to anything found in Asia or Europe. Thank you for these glimpses into that lost history. I hope to see more on Peruvian archeology. There is so much to explore just in that single region.

[@archaeoedpodcast]

Thanks Warren! The ancient religions are so key - if we archaeologists are wrong about then, we're wrong about a great many things!

[@leepeel7129]

The legend of Ed-orado!

[@jessicamoores6138]

I Adore Dr Linda S. RIP🙏🙏🙏

[@jessicamoores6138]

Excellent!

[@igor-yp1xv]

This is super interesting! Subscribed.

[@TonyScarpa-sj6md]

I am mochica, I would love to get into a voice chat with you! ❤

[@archaeoedpodcast]

Hi Tony, I don't do voice chats but I'd be happy to correspond with you here or by email - [e-mail]

[@leepeel7129]

Those are certainly some strong connections. I have a question about the dis-embodied head in the lower right of the image you chose for this vid. Is that writing or some kind of mark on its chin? Or is that damage to the artifact?

[@archaeoedpodcast]

It's probably tattoos or scarification. And probably a spirit involved in the ceremony symbolized by a severed head! No doubt its presence was some sort of info for the viewer.

[@sandman1688]

I like your podcast and find your interpretations very interesting. Any ideas on how, or why anal sex helped cure the sick? Also, any correlation between Viracocha, and Gukumatz?

[@archaeoedpodcast]

No connection between the Maya and Andean cultures has ever been solidly proven. I'm amused that I have to discuss anal sex, but yes, it was a cure for the Moche. I believe it was the same as the phlegm of the Amazonian tobacco shamans. Curenderos had power within and it could be "shared" through semen. To avoid getting a patient pregnant, it was through anal sex or blow job.