Elizabeth P. Benson has published numerous articles, monographs, and catalogue descriptions on the Moche. For many years, she worked with the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, first at the National Gallery of Art and then at Dumbarton Oaks, where she installed the collection and established the pre-Columbian publication and fellowship programs. She has also lectured widely and has taught at American University, the Catholic University of America, Columbia University, and the University of Texas at Austin.
Cook is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Catholic University of America.

Decapitation in Cupisnique 21

Interwoven 55

Ritual Practices at the Moche 93

Ritual Uses of Trophy Heads 119

Huari DShaped Structures Sacrificial Offerings 137

The Physical Evidence of Human Sacrifice 167

Bibliography 185

Index 209

This is indeed a significant contribution that contains an immense amount of new evidence... The authors offer plentiful support for the view that human sacrifice is a very ancient and important, though shocking, Andean tradition." -William J Conklin, Research Associate for the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., the Field Museum, Chicago, and the Institute of Andean Studies, Berkeley