Hacia una arqueología dialéctica: una heurística y una explicación del fenómeno Moche

Abstract

This article proposes a heuristic inspired by dialectics to explain the historical relationships between the various entities that constitute the world, as an alternative to teleological perspectives used in archaeology.This heuristic moves away from archaeological, ethnohistorical, historical, and anthropological information as well as life experience. In this perspective, there exist a number of entities that are immersed and intertwined in dialectical, historically contingent, material relationships that may coexist in tension and/or conflict. After explaining this set of elements and their relationships, we apply use this heuristic to explain the Moche phenomenon that developed on the north coast of Peru between the III and VII centuries AD.