. Bulletin. Ethnology. 146 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 155 platform which forms the base of the site rises about 5 meters above the flat lands. This platform is crowned with 6 knolls which vary in total height from to 10 meters. The smallest of these knolls are almost sure to be house clusters. The larger knolls might be artificial pyra- mids of adobe, but this is not proven. Bennett's excavation was made in the platform, not in one of the knolls. Five floor levels were disclosed. Cane-marked, ball adobes, and tapia type construction were all noted. A burial of the Late Gallinazo s
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 146 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 155 platform which forms the base of the site rises about 5 meters above the flat lands. This platform is crowned with 6 knolls which vary in total height from to 10 meters. The smallest of these knolls are almost sure to be house clusters. The larger knolls might be artificial pyra- mids of adobe, but this is not proven. Bennett's excavation was made in the platform, not in one of the knolls. Five floor levels were disclosed. Cane-marked, ball adobes, and tapia type construction were all noted. A burial of the Late Gallinazo subperiod was found intrusive through a top level floor showing that it had been made after the final construction phase at the site. Bennett dates the site as Middle and Late Gallinazo. V-165.—This is a site composed of a cluster of adobe mounds and platforms which appears to be a small Pyramid-Dwelling-Construc- tion Complex. It was not excavated, but Ford and I visited it and made a surface collection. The site is located in the midst of cultivated fields in Lower Viru-South (Quad C-4, northeast). Its total area could be placed within a circle 90 meters in diameter (fig. 30). The principal mound-platform mass is oriented northwest-southeast on its longer axis. This measures about 70 meters. Maximum width on the other axis is 35 meters. The highest construction of this complex is a .^h l^-/6S «/%^ §1 T ? I I V ?l If 4\ I- ii \\ fl j: ..^''T^-'t OLb EXCAV. \\ J* \magnetic) 'nf^^'m'W^^* Q fQ 20 METERS. Figure 30.—Ground plan of Pyramid-Dwelling-Construction Complex V-165. Late Gallinazo Period. Figures indicate respective heights in 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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