. 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. Fig. 20. La Plata pottery from \-305. A, \"iri'i Plain jar, Li-vrl 2; B and C, Tomaval Plain jars, Level 6. site lies within the area of monte, and save for a few open glades and goat paths is thickly overgrown with algarrobo trees and thorny brush. It con- sists of a northeast quadrangle, 140 by 200 meters, and a southwest quad- rangle, 130 by 230 meters (fig. 21). The general orientation is NE-SW. The massive
. 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. Fig. 20. La Plata pottery from \-305. A, \"iri'i Plain jar, Li-vrl 2; B and C, Tomaval Plain jars, Level 6. site lies within the area of monte, and save for a few open glades and goat paths is thickly overgrown with algarrobo trees and thorny brush. It con- sists of a northeast quadrangle, 140 by 200 meters, and a southwest quad- rangle, 130 by 230 meters (fig. 21). The general orientation is NE-SW. The massive outer compound walls and the interior walls are solid tapia. Within the various courts there are few traces of permanent structures, al- though some of these may have been missed in the dense undergrowth. If there were houses within these walls, they must have been of flimsy pole- and-mud construction. In the southwest quadrangle are three refuse mounds and two sinks. The latter may have Ijcen used for water storage. Surface sherds indicated that the site had been occupied during the Estero period. Excavation V-171A.—We cut a 2 by 4 meter trench into the center of a roughly circular mound 20 meters in diameter and meters high, located in the southern corner of the southwest quadrangle. The long axis of the trench butted against a tapia wall, the top of which lay just below the sur- face of the mound summit (fig. 22). The trench was carried down in 25 cm. levels (fig. 22). Ihr first 140 cm. of the fill included three strata of dark brown earth, each harder and less sandy than the one above (Strata a, h, d). At 75 cm. was a thin layer of adobe fragments. The tapia wall on the southwest side of the trench ended at a depth of 140 cm., which is the level of the present ground surface at the base of the mound. This wall is 75 cm. wide at the top, and the northeast face has a batter of 20 cm. in meters. If the opposite face,. Please note that these images are extracted from
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