A comprehensive, scholarly overview of the ancient Moche civilization of northern coastal Peru. These are the people, known for their architecture, ceramics and metallurgy, who built Sipan in the first centuries A.D. The author is a professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. With some disappointing black-and-white illustrations and murky photographs. A volume in the series, The Peoples of America.  (PRU56, $31.95)