. 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 EXCAN'AIIONS 57 occupation ceased. Below this point was a stratum of liarcL sterile, dark l)rown clay occasionalh' mottled with \ellow, the bottom of which ex- tended below the test pit, 75 cm. deep, that we cut in the floor of the trench. A wall of plain, mold-made, rectangular adoi^es cut diagonally across the southwest corner of the trench. Its top was at a depth of 50 cm. and its base at 150 cm. There w
. 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 EXCAN'AIIONS 57 occupation ceased. Below this point was a stratum of liarcL sterile, dark l)rown clay occasionalh' mottled with \ellow, the bottom of which ex- tended below the test pit, 75 cm. deep, that we cut in the floor of the trench. A wall of plain, mold-made, rectangular adoi^es cut diagonally across the southwest corner of the trench. Its top was at a depth of 50 cm. and its base at 150 cm. There was no e\'idence of a floor at the base of this REFUSE MOUND GENERAL REFUSE i DEPOSIT I I M I M M I I I I I I Ground level around Meters Fig. 25. Scht-matic profile of rrcnch \'-167A. wall. At a depth of meters in Level 11, which was \ery rich in sherds and refuse, there was a layer of shell and charcoal 2-3 cm. thick. The sherds from the first thirteen levels at V-167A all fall within the first half of the Tomaval period (fig. 47 and Table 8). Level 14 contained only thirteen Castillo Plain sherds and three Huacapongo Polished Plain sherds. The sample is so small that it is impossible to know whether Level 14 dates from the early Gallinazo period or has resulted from a mixture of a later Gallinazo deposit with sherds dating from the earlier Puerto Moorin period. That meters of refuse should accumulate during the period of strong Tiahuanaco influence (approximately the first half of the Tomaval period) is remarkable, and is evidence of unusually heavy dumping and, i^y inference, intensive occupation of the site. The only other instance of such rapid accumulation is the refuse at V-301. Since the Tomaval refuse extends not onlv through the refuse mound, but also through the deposit co\ering the whole site and underlying the mound, and to a depth of meters below the ground level outside the site, it is exidenl that the general refuse area was
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