ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the possible causal factors which appear to have imparted the particular configuration or "form" to this pottery tradition and, having done this, will offer hypotheses about such factors in a more general way. The Moche culture is the context for the greatest elaborations of the North Coast Plastic Pottery Tradition. The symposium formulations for descriptive synthesis of cultural traditions enumerated five types of culture change profiles or tradition segment forms: direct, converging, diverging, elaborating; and reducing. The tradition segment succeeding late Cupisnique is a converging one with, in sequence, the White-on-Red and Negative-Painting influences merging with the Plastic line of development. The archaeological symposium to which we hav.
