. 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 31 first 30 cm. consisted of a mixture of sand, shell, ash, and vegetal remains. Below this was a sandy stratum 60 cm. thick containing fewer shells and vegetal remains and no ash but with chunks of adobe and a greater mix- ture of earth. The sand became purer below this layer, and a sterile stratum of wind-blown sand extended from 120 cm. to an unknown Areo of excovotion 0 5 10 Fig. 2.
. 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 31 first 30 cm. consisted of a mixture of sand, shell, ash, and vegetal remains. Below this was a sandy stratum 60 cm. thick containing fewer shells and vegetal remains and no ash but with chunks of adobe and a greater mix- ture of earth. The sand became purer below this layer, and a sterile stratum of wind-blown sand extended from 120 cm. to an unknown Areo of excovotion 0 5 10 Fig. 2. PlanofV-108. The sherds from this cut fall into the La Plata time span (Talkie 1 and fig. 47). Excavation V-J08B.—The three rooms that were cleared adjoin the sea- ward (southwest) wall near the northwest end of the compound (figs. 3 and 4). Room A, the largest, is by meters. Rooms B and C, lying between Room A and the compound wall, are by and by meters, respectively. The walls in this group of rooms vary in thickness from 15 to 60 cm. The plain, rectangular, mold-made adobes fall into two size groups, 32 by 25 by 20 and 32 by 15 by 15 cm. The lengths are quite uniform, fjut the widths and thicknesses vary several centimeters. The five different types of wall construction in this room group are shown in figure 5. The wall faces were covered with 1-2 cm. of adobe plaster, which re- mains intact in sections protected by fill. The fill in Room A consisted of fallen adobes, adobe fragments, and wind-blown sand. A plastered adolx' floor (Floor a) was encountered one meter l)elow the present tops of the walls and 10 cm. below the level of the sand flat surrounding the site. This floor curves upward at its junction with the walls, particularly at the corners. Two former doorways, one in the northwest wall and one at the corner, have been bricked up and plastered over. At the north corner a doorway leads into an antechamber, from which there is a walled-
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