>>17791813
Then, Moche pottery of Recuay people sometimes uses red highlights and because of that, some appear with red hair. Why the Moche used this style occasionally? Maybe because their highland neighbors, Recuay and Cajamarca, sometimes used a color scheme which the Moche then adopted. And then some of these foreign styles were really embraced in their pure, non-Moche form when Moche culture became crippled in later centuries, pic related.

Btw Cajamarca's was by a really really really long short the most stable pre-Columbian pottery tradition from the Andes, especially compared to every other tradition, it barely changed from its inception to Inca times