Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Viru Valley, Peru

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Upon my return from Peru in the fall of 1946, I spent several months revising notes and working over field maps from Viru. In May of 1947, the paper, Viru Valley: Background and Problems, was written in conjunction with Ford. This paper was intended as a joint introduction to Ford's Viru ceramic survey and my settlement study. Later, it was determined that the reports would not be issued together, and so the introductory, Viru Valley: Background and Prob lems, was published with Ford's Cultural Dating of Prehistoric Sites in Viru Valley, Peru (ford and Willey, 1949 a and b).