. Bulletin. Ethnology. WILLET] SETTLEMENT PATTERNS, VIRU VALLEY, PERU 243 boulders. The best preserved rooms vary in size from about 10 meters square down to 4 by 5 meters. They are not at all perfectly alined. Emphasis seems to have been upon making them conform to the contours of the hill rather than to each other. Rooms were, however, very definitely tied together, both laterally and from terrace to ter- race. An estimate of 100 to 125 rooms for V-8 is conservative. A potsherd collection from all sections of the site is dated as Tomaval Period. V-9.—This small Irregular Agglutinated group l
. Bulletin. Ethnology. WILLET] SETTLEMENT PATTERNS, VIRU VALLEY, PERU 243 boulders. The best preserved rooms vary in size from about 10 meters square down to 4 by 5 meters. They are not at all perfectly alined. Emphasis seems to have been upon making them conform to the contours of the hill rather than to each other. Rooms were, however, very definitely tied together, both laterally and from terrace to ter- race. An estimate of 100 to 125 rooms for V-8 is conservative. A potsherd collection from all sections of the site is dated as Tomaval Period. V-9.—This small Irregular Agglutinated group lies about 200 meters northeast of V-8 (Quad D-2, southeast). Like V-7, it was, perhaps, a little outlier of the larger V-8 group. It is on the drift slope at the foot of the bordering hills. At the west side of the little ruin is a small, looted cemetery (fig. 50). Sherds, pulverized CCMETERr \. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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