The oldest known Civilization in the Americas and not one thread.
Americas' first city is Huaricanga of the Norte Chico civilization.
Norte Chico region's the Cradle of civilization dated 3500 BC.
The oldest known Civilization in the Americas and not one thread
Jeremiah Bennett
Brody Gutierrez
>Norte Chico civilization
they didn't even have pottery
Xavier Roberts
If you want to call that shit a civilization then Neolithic European cultures are civilizations too
Blake Hill
Greece, 6000 bc
Luis Jenkins
Peruvian here.
That's true. It's a loose definition of civilization. It actually is defined by the earliest cities(urbanized settlements).
Caral happened just when Southamerican cultures reached the neolithic revolution. Caral is similar to Jericho (9500BC) as both are the earliest urban settlements of their respective continents.
As a side note, Caral had advanced stuff if we compare them to Jericho.
Dominic Ward
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Jacob Baker
The Caral Supe or Norte Chico Civilization of South America
Why Are There Two Names for this Ancient Peruvian Society?
thoughtco.com
The 5000-year-old 626-hectare archaeological site of The Sacred City of Caral-Supe is situated on a dry desert terrace overlooking the green valley of the Supe river. It dates back to the Late Archaic Period of the Central Andes and is the oldest centre of civilization in the Americas. Exceptionally well-preserved, the site is impressive in terms of its design and the complexity of its architectural, especially its monumental stone and earthen platform mounts and sunken circular courts. One of 18 urban settlements situated in the same area, Caral features complex and monumental architecture, including six large pyramidal structures. A quipu (the knot system used in Andean civilizations to record information) found on the site testifies to the development and complexity of Caral society. The city’s plan and some of its components, including pyramidal structures and residence of the elite, show clear evidence of ceremonial functions, signifying a powerful religious ideology.
whc.unesco.org
Jeremiah Green
Stone Hedge? huh, off to research...
Evan Reyes
History of the Incan Empire
4chanarchives.com
Who had more advanced civilization, Mesoamericans or Incas?
yuki.la
Hope that helps
Adrian Martinez
We don't know Jack shit about them.
Inca empire is very interesting, shame we have so few accurate records as compared to old world history.
Luis Reyes
Older than the oldest first pryamid in egypt
Parker Roberts
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Thomas Smith
It will never stop to boggle my mind how the andes civilizations could built so much stuff but never developed a non-autistic form of written communication.
Christopher Young
It's almost like real life isn't a game of Civ 5 and that there isn't some set "tech tree" that every culture moves along.
Kayden Ward
Real life might not have a tech-tree, but you need to discover fire in order to invent ovens, and writing is among the most useful things a culture can develop.
And the Incas did had it, but it was such an utterly autistic system that I just don't get how anybody used it for anything ever.
Oliver King
What's the point of that tangle of unroofed walls? Why would an archaeologist dig that up and think "oh yeah this is a floorplan but there's no way it would have a roof"?
William Sanchez
How is this a city? it's only a bunch of pyramids
Nicholas Watson
There are foundations visible, so it's safe to assume that there once existed buildings of which no trace survives to this day. Maybe wooden or straw buildings or something. I mean if it's not a city then what's the point of a huge pyramid complex in the middle of nowhere?
Liam Diaz
They used thousands of wind powered water witching wholes to obtain water in the desert
Wyatt Lopez
A team of researchers led by Rosa Lasaponara with the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, in Italy has found evidence that suggests that the purpose of the spiral, rock-lined holes called puquios carved into the ground in an area near the 'Nasca lines' in Peru, were part of an ancient water distribution system
James Nguyen
According to the researcher, the corkscrewing funnels were used to force wind down to a series of underground canals, which then forced water through the system to areas it was needed.
the discovery explained how the native people were able to survive in a region severely lacking water, and development of plant and animal life.
“What is clearly evident today is that the puquios system must have been much more developed than it appears today,” she said.
“Exploiting an inexhaustible water supply throughout the year the puquios system contributed to an intensive agriculture of the valleys in one of the most arid places in the world.”
Kevin Sanchez
evicence suggests that the puquios served as part of a vast hydraulic system that carried water in underground canals to where it was needed—either to water crops or into populated areas as drinking water. The puquios, they explained further, caused air to be pulled down into the underground canal system—the wind actually helped to push the water through the system, which meant they served as ancient pumps.
Eli Sanchez
Is that like Qanat in Persia
Blake Fisher
>Qanats in the Americas, usually referred to as puquios or filtration galleries, can be found in the Nazca region of Peru and in northern Chile.
welp nvm, answered my own question
Levi Moore
>Stone Hedge? huh, off to research...
Huaricanga: Americas' continents' first Stonehenge.
Hudson Wright
>The Caral Supe or Norte Chico Civilization of South America
>Why Are There Two Names for this Ancient Peruvian Society?
Dunno but wish they (whoever they are)
would make their mind(s) up about that.
Are they (ditto) really that incompetent?