Ceramics play a central role in the debates around the relationship between the Viru and the Moche. A recent model considers Negative and Moche-decorated ceramics produced by potters affiliated with the elites to be the cultural markers of the Viru and Moche populations, respectively. Due to the similarity of Viru and Moche plain-wares and the presence of Castillo Decorated ceramics in Viru and Moche contexts, this model sees both types of ceramics as domestic traditions, produced by independent potters and sharing a common technique. The research we present here supports this recent model by reconsidering the social and cultural meaning associated with these ceramic types: it uses a novel approach for South America of reconstructing the chaîne opératoire by studying the traces visible on ceramics at a macroscopic and microscopic scale. The study demonstrates how these potters used their own traditions to produce decorated and undecorated ceramics. Furthermore, we found that Castillo Decorated is a type produced only by Viru potters, and we argue that its presence in Moche contexts is evidence of the numerous exchanges maintained by these two populations.

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Chaîne Opératoire 是区分秘鲁北海岸维鲁和莫切政体陶瓷生产的一种方法

陶瓷在围绕维鲁人和莫切人之间关系的争论中发挥着核心作用。最近的一个模型认为，由属于精英阶层的陶工生产的负陶瓷和莫切装饰陶瓷分别是维鲁人和莫切人的文化标志。由于维鲁和莫切普通陶器的相似性以及维鲁和莫切背景中卡斯蒂略装饰陶瓷的存在，该模型将这两种类型的陶瓷视为国内传统，由独立陶工制作并共享共同的技术。我们在此提出的研究通过重新考虑与这些陶瓷类型相关的社会和文化意义来支持这一最新模型：它使用了一种新颖的方法来重建南美洲链歌剧院通过在宏观和微观尺度上研究陶瓷上可见的痕迹。该研究展示了这些陶工如何利用自己的传统来生产装饰和未装饰的陶瓷。此外，我们发现卡斯蒂略装饰是一种仅由维鲁陶工制作的类型，我们认为它在莫切背景中的存在证明了这两个人群维持的大量交流。