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The Viru Valley is located in La Libertad Region on the north west coast of
The Viru Valley is located in La Libertad Region on the north west coast of Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
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The Viru Valley Project
In 1946 the first attempt to study settlement patterns in theAmericas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.''Webster's New World College Dictionary'', 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. When viewed as a sing ...
took place in the Viru Valley, led by Gordon Willey. Rather than examine individual settlement sites, Willey wanted to look at the valley as a whole and the way that each village interacted with the others. The study showed that villages were located in places which reflected their relationship with the wider landscape and their neighbours. The project emphasised the importance for archaeologists of viewing sites holistically and to take into account the economic, environmental, social and political factors acting on past societies.
Willey's groundbreaking study stimulated the work of a number of subsequent archaeologists in the valley. From 1992 to 1998 Dr. Thomas A. Zoubek embarked on a study of the earliest mid and upper valley sites in Viru concentrating specifically at the sites of Huaca El Gallo/La Gallina of Virú culture, in the El Nino Quebrada. These excavations and later ones in the Susanga region completely redefined our knowledge of the earliest agricultural societies in the valley and resulted in the discovery of the earliest ceramics found in coastal Peru that have been dated to c.2400 BCE.
Notable people
* Julio Castillo Narváez (? –2011), producer and radio news program host, murdered in Viru.See also
* Virú culture * Chavimochic * Chao Valley * Moche valley * Chicama Valley * Jequetepeque ValleyReferences
Willey, G. R. (1953): ''Prehistoric settlement patterns in the Virù Valley, Peru''. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 155. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Archaeology in the Americas Archaeological sites in Peru Archaeological sites in the Department of La Libertad Valleys of the Department of La Libertad {{LaLibertad-geo-stub