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Still, for all the naturalism and technical skill Moche ceramics are known for, their color game was seriously underwhelming despite being one of the most varied pottery styles worldwide. They didn’t go beyond 3 colors per piece, often only 2. Their southern contemporaries, the Nazca, might not have nailed realism the same way, but they completely outclassed every other pre-Columbian South American pottery tradition before and after them when it came to number of colors used, though that’s not best shown here.