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.

Why Sacrifice?


Decapitation in Cupisnique and Early Moche Societies


Spondylus Shells


Interwoven


Ritual Practices at the Moche


Ritual Uses of Trophy Heads in Ancient Nasca Society


Huari DShaped Structures Sacrificial Offerings


Bibliography

"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

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)