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Article: CRADLE OF THE AMERICAS? ANCIENT CITY IN PERU DATES TO TIME OF EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 27, 2001
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At the same time that Egyptians were building some of the first pyramids 4,600 years ago, the indigenous people of Peru were building stone platform mounds, plazas and canals in what new dating techniques show to be the oldest major city in the Americas.
New radiocarbon dates from plant fibers indicate that the city known as Caral in central Peru was thriving between 2600 and 2000 B.C., more than a thousand years before other known cities in the Western Hemisphere, researchers report in today's edition of the journal Science.
"What we're learning from Caral is going to rewrite the way we think about the development of early Andean civilization," said ...