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Panamarca is a Moche ceremonial center in the Nepena Valley of Ancash, Peru, built between roughly 550 and 750 CE during the Moche V phase. The principal structure is a stepped adobe platform some 30 metres high, faced with painted murals that rank among the most extensive surviving examples of Moche pictorial art. The murals — first documented by Richard Schaedel in 1950 and re-examined by Lisa Trever, Jorge Gamboa, and colleagues in field seasons since 2010 — depict warrior processions, prisoner sacrifice scenes, and supernatural figures including the Moon Goddess and the Decapitator. Adobe brick makers' marks identify dozens of distinct work parties contributing labor under corveé obligation. The plaza walls preserve scenes painted in red, white, yellow, ochre, and black mineral pigments still legible after thirteen centuries. Panamarca marks the southern frontier of Moche political reach.
The mural fragments uncovered in 2022 added a new procession of warrior-priests to the published corpus.