Ceramics of the North and South Coasts Essay -- Pottery Mochica Cerami

Ceramics of the northeastward and South sloping troughsAncient Peruvian Ceramics of the North Coast March 11, 1997 The prototypal pottery pieces found in Peru were made somewhere between 1500 and mebibyte b.p. The pieces were found in the central Andean region where a spectral cult lived. This cult was called Chavn, after the best known ceremonial center, Chavn de Huntar. The religious center was the home to massive temples that were extremely embellished with low support sculptures of gods, animals, and symbols. The pottery found in the area where vessels that were well made and highly beautify with a similar motif as the temples. but the developing of Peruvian pottery becomes somewhat confusing and complex after this freshman civilization of potters.There is a division of people into the North Coast and the South Coast. The split created two styles of pottery, although similar, they never quite merge. I am only going to talk about the north playground slide traditions. On the North coast there are five cultures that evolve into the supreme Mochica style, which was one of the most vigorous and prosperous cultures of Ancient Peru. The next earlier North Coast style, other than the Chavn, started with the Cupisnique people in the Chicama valley. Their ceramics closely resembled those of upland Chavn. They were well made and polished, though somewhat thick walled and heavy. The type of redness used produced a dark semireduced ware that varied from brownish venerable to carbon black in color. Decoration consisted of bold, curvilinear human, feline, and birds of pray heads, center field patterns, pelt markings, and other brief symbols of geometric devices. In the valley to the southwest of the Cupisnique were the Salinar people who sometime during the fifth century b.p. moved into the north coast of Peru and spread its influence throughout the Cupisnique area. Salinar pottery, though deceptively primitive in ornamentation, was technologically supe rior to that of the Cupisnique. Vessels were made of well-prepared clays that were fully oxidized in firing, qualification them an even orange color. Cream and red slips were used to accentuate sculptural forms and create flat geometric patterns, but not to draw figurative motifs. The technical advances of the controlled oxidation firing and slip decoration soon had their case on contemporary Cupisnique ceramics. Personally, I enjoyed the bottle forms they used wi... ...V period they had an prolonged kingdom established and it brought together the peoples of all the north coast valleys. The ceramics were decorated in flowing, expressive lines and the sculpturesque vessels showed attention to individual detailed ornamentation. But the original flow in the ceramic styles was hindered somewhat because of a hard militant rule of the warrior-priest class that was beginning. Yet this was still the most creative time for the Mochica people. The final period in Mochica ceramics, due to a tip of the culture, brought an abrupt termination of the great art tradition that it had expressed so well. The vessels found from this period show a carelessness in mental picture designs, and less attention to details in the sculptural forms.Many of the figures modeled in to the vessels were warriors dressed for combat. The decline in quality that can be observed, and the nervousness and tension that were expressed in their designs and forms was related to the pressure from the militant expansionist group, the Wari. The struggle between the Mochica and the Wari, was long and fierce, ending in a total collapse of their culture and a loss a 1200 stratum ceramic tradition.