. 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 51 which was not cleared, has a similar batter, the base of the wall is meters thick. No evidence of a floor was found at the base of this wall. Below 140 cm. the fill consisted of hard, mottled yellow-brown clay (Strata e-g), which became progressively sandier until patches of coarse, gray-brown sand (Stratum h) were encountered at meters. The fill con- tained no sherds or other eviden
. 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 51 which was not cleared, has a similar batter, the base of the wall is meters thick. No evidence of a floor was found at the base of this wall. Below 140 cm. the fill consisted of hard, mottled yellow-brown clay (Strata e-g), which became progressively sandier until patches of coarse, gray-brown sand (Stratum h) were encountered at meters. The fill con- tained no sherds or other evidence of human occupation below meters. Estero La Plata Tomaval. ground " ' ""surface Centimeters Fig. 22. Profile of Trench \-171A. a, dark brown, sandy earth; b, similar to a but harder, with less sand; c, thin layer of adobe fragments; d, same as b but harder; e, hard, mottled, yellow-brown clay; /, same as e but with more sand; g, hard, sandy, brown clay; h, coarse, gray-brown sand; /, very hard, mottled brown and yellow clay. A stratum of very hard, mottled brown and yellow clay (Stratum /) began at meters and extended down to the bottom of the trench at meters. The sherds from the fill indicate an occupation of this part of the site from before the middle of the Tomaval period through the La Plata and Estero periods (Table 5 and fig. 47). Level 10, the lowest sherd-bearing layer, contained only 16 sherds, one Tomaval Plain and 15 Castillo Plain. The sample is too small to date this lot of sherds; it could have been de- posited during the Tomaval period or earlier. The relation of the arbitrary excavation levels to the natural strata and the period affiliations of the former are shown in figure 22. Strata a and h were deposited during the Estero period, and the upper three-fourths of d during La Plata. The bottom of Stratum d, Strata e and/, and the major part of g were laid down during the Tomaval period. The portion of the mound above present g
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