Archive image from page 90 of Cultural chronology and change as. Cultural chronology and change as reflected in the ceramics of the Virú Valley, Peru culturalchronolo431coll Year: 1955 ( SITES AND EXCAVATIONS 87 time they were in use for storage purposes. Because of their conical l)ases, the\ would have been lying on their sides if they had been abandoned on the surface. No doubt their users had scooped out holes in the refuse in which to place them. Their relative positions suggest that the broken jar was in use at a later time than the intact one. Fig. 44. Huancaco vessel from V-272C, Bu
Archive image from page 90 of Cultural chronology and change as. Cultural chronology and change as reflected in the ceramics of the Virú Valley, Peru culturalchronolo431coll Year: 1955 ( SITES AND EXCAVATIONS 87 time they were in use for storage purposes. Because of their conical l)ases, the\ would have been lying on their sides if they had been abandoned on the surface. No doubt their users had scooped out holes in the refuse in which to place them. Their relative positions suggest that the broken jar was in use at a later time than the intact one. Fig. 44. Huancaco vessel from V-272C, Burial 1; X Excavation V-272C.—The probability of disturbance in Trench B, e\'i- denced by the burials or caches of Gallinazo type in Levels 1-3 and the two Gallinazo burials at the edge of the trench in Level 7, led us to make a third cut in the mound. The only suitable undisturbed area remaining was on the east side of and immediately adjoining Trench A (fig. 38). Here we dug a 2 in' 6 meter trench. A number of Huancaco (Mochica) sherds turned up in Level 1, and in Level 2 (extending into Level 3) there were two Huancaco burials meters apart in the north end of the trench. Burial 1 contained two broken stirrup jars (figs. 40, J, and 44), and Burial 2 a single portrait vase with stirrup spout missing (fig. 40, K). The burial pits were indistinct and the bones very fragmentary. The bodies appeared
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