A collection of recent papers on the prehistoric Jequetepeque Valley, Peru. Contents: (1) Introduction: State and Empire in the Jequetepeque Valley (Ilana Johnson and Colleen M. Zori); 2) Social Roles of Cemeteries in the Jequetepeque Valley System (Colleen M. Zori); 3) The Development of Semi-Autonomous Communities in the Late Moche Period (AD 600-900) (Ilana Johnson); 4) The Northern Moche World at the Beginning of the Eighth Century and the Role of the Jequetepeque Valley (Alana Cordy-Collins); (5) Food for the Dead, Cuisine for the Living: Mortuary Food Offerings from the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru (Robyn Cutright); (6) Lambayeque Norte and Lambayeque Sur: Evidence for the Development of an Indigenous Lambayeque Polity in the Jequetepeque Valley (William Sapp);