. Cultural chronology and change as reflected in the ceramics of the Virú Valley, Peru. Pottery -- Viru Valley, Peru; Mounds -- Peru Viru Valley; Viru Valley, Peru -- Antiquities. SITES AND EXCAVATIONS 79 Santa Elena to the Pan-American highway, and 950 meters north of the \^iru River. This site was selected for study because the surface collection made there by Ford contained both Guanape ceramics and Huacapongo Polished Plain, the typical plain ware of the succeeding Puerto Moorin period. This led me to hope that the site would yield information on the transition from Guanape to Puerto Moori
. Cultural chronology and change as reflected in the ceramics of the Virú Valley, Peru. Pottery -- Viru Valley, Peru; Mounds -- Peru Viru Valley; Viru Valley, Peru -- Antiquities. SITES AND EXCAVATIONS 79 Santa Elena to the Pan-American highway, and 950 meters north of the \^iru River. This site was selected for study because the surface collection made there by Ford contained both Guanape ceramics and Huacapongo Polished Plain, the typical plain ware of the succeeding Puerto Moorin period. This led me to hope that the site would yield information on the transition from Guanape to Puerto Moorin, a phase to which the Guanape materials from the subsoil at \'-171 appeared to belong. / .^^ "x^... V ^ # .^^ '''%//////;;imm|,,|,|lil,,|i,iiiiini|m % __-_ Ti 111T i r 122a Trench Meters Fig. 38. Plan of V-272. In the same cornfield are four similar but smaller and lower mounds (V-306, 307, 308, 309); a larger mound (V-302) lies just to the west. These mounds show plainly on the aerial sheet covering this part of the valley and are immediately noticeable from the ground because of their different soil color and their lack of vegetation. At the time of this study they contrasted sharply with the surrounding green of the corn which was planted up to the edges of the mound fill but never in it. even where the fill was no higher than the surrounding soil. The apparent high concentration of .saltpeter in these mounds was con- firmed by excavations in three of them. They contain refuse, as well as l)urials, but no evidence of structures. It has been convincingly suggested (Ford and VVilley, 1949b, p. 26) that these and similar mounds in the lower Viru Valley were built up by repeated dumping of salty soil scraped by the ancient farmers from their salt-encrusted fields. Irrigation of this soil dissolves the contained mineral salts and brings them to the surface, where. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced fo
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