Profile: Susan Downey Paso de la Amada, Mexico Studying Faunal Remains at Paso de la Amada Zooarchaeological Research Director's Message Paydirt Fieldwork Update Student News On Site	With both Gallinazo and Moche stratified deposits, this site could provide key data for understanding the transition from the dispersed Gallinazo sites to the politically integrated Moche occupation. CHICAMA VALLEY, PERU Excavating Mocollope, a Gallinazo and Moche Center, on Peru's North Coast by Glenn S. Russell and Christopher Attarian THE 1998 FIELD SEASON OF THE ONGOING CHICAMA VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGICAL Research Project focused on excavations at the site of Mocollope, a large civic ceremonial site located in the Chicama Valley on the north coast of Peru. The central precinct of the site is dominated by a series of stone and mud brick mounds and platforms constructed at the base of Cerro Mocollope, a mountain located in the center of the broad flat alluvial plain of the lower Chicama Valley. MORE
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