University of Wisconsin Milwaukee UWM Digital Commons Theses and Dissertations May 2015 Re-examined and Re-defined: an Exploration and Comparative Analysis of Moche Ceramic Vessels in the Milwaukee Public Museum Collections Kirsten Marie Mottl University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd Part of the Archaeological Anthropology Commons, and the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Mottl, Kirsten Marie, "Re-examined and Re-defined: an Exploration and Comparative Analysis of Moche Ceramic Vessels in the Milwaukee Public Museum Collections" (2015). Theses and Dissertations. 822. https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/822 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by UWM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of UWM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. RE-EXAMINED AND RE-DEFINED: AN EXPLORATION AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MOCHE CERAMIC VESSELS IN THE MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTIONS by Kirsten M. Mottl A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Anthropology at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee May 2015 ABSTRACT RE-EXAMINED AND RE-DEFINED: AN EXPLORATION AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MOCHE CERAMIC VESSELS IN THE MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM COLLECTIONS by Kirsten M. Mottl The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2015 Under the Supervision of Professor Jean Hudson For this thesis, I studied Moche ceramic vessel collections from three museums, the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM), the Field Museum in Chicago, and the Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin.