The Lost Pyramids Of Caral 5 of 5

The Lost Pyramids Of Caral 5 of 5

Making this BBC video available for educational purposes...

from http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/...
"The magnificent ancient city of pyramids at Caral in Peru hit the headlines in 2001. The site is a thousand years older than the earliest known civilisation in the Americas and, at 2,627 BC, is as old as the pyramids of Egypt. Many now believe it is the fabled missing link of archaeology - a 'mother city'. If so, then these extraordinary findings could finally answer one of the great questions of archaeology: why did humans become civilised?"

A lot has been discussed since this was put out.

From Seattle Times (December 23, 2004): "A Peruvian site previously reported as the oldest city in the Americas actually is a much larger complex of as many as 20 cities with huge pyramids and sunken plazas sprawled over three river valleys, researchers report."

Construction began in 3000 BCE (300-400 years before the people of Kemet/Egypt began the Pyramid of Djoser). These cities flourished peacefully for more than 1,200 years.

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• caral
• pyramids
• peru
• civilization
• inca
• indigenous
• americas
• native american
• south
• america

[Xochitpilli]

i love this video

[austpom333]

A BBC documentary - absolute first class

[DidivsIvlianvs]

No gunfight at the OK Caral.

[CosminhoPacetta]

This a Anunnaki place in South America.. The Enlitita's place......

[AlbertInSanAntonio]

so i guess civilization was born from trading?

[poosaypirate]

@poosaypirate bombs made in china, banks from Europe

supplies global

go figure

[poosaypirate]

@gladtobeangry agreed a hundred percent. besides that the evidence they used was anecdotal at best SO ? one babiy is burried- so what?

what about the fires etc

could be for sacrifice. they NEVER Discussed religion on the whole thing etc.

basically, its a new finding, to make a doccu, they had to make it dramatic.

still something seems fucked up about trying to attach a message behind it a..

not to mentnion TRADE can be absolutely a cause for war.

today usa gets money from banks to fund war

[gladtobeangry]

Part 3 : I will be interested in this story as it is weaved in with the evidence from around the world. This view is just way to isolated and made to suit the meme that trade is good and war is bad. It is one of the many possibilities after initial studies of a very large and complex site. Let's not jump to conclusions before more data analysis and excavation. Remember what we thought about neanderthals until 15 years ago. New evidence turned the theory on its head. That will happen here too.

[gladtobeangry]

Part 2 : Science is usually done on the basis of evidence not on the basis of lack of evidence. There might have been wars before the settlement, during the settlement, it might have even ended the settlement, even if no proof of fighting was found. If this was a city of thousands, one peacefully buried baby does not mean peace for a 1000 years. Weapons may have been of great value, and were taken away by warriors after battle, or they may have been made from materials that easily erode.

[gladtobeangry]

BBC usually is less preachy than this documentary. I don't believe this is the oldest city, the mesopotamians built cities in 4000 bc, and before that even early stone age peoples had large societies operating together. It might be one of the oldest and best finds, but that still doesn't make it THE mother city. And I don't agree with the conclusion that there WAS a 1000 years of peace. You can't say that for sure at all. Hippie ideals and objective science don't mix.

[andrewleslieleslie4]

Sorry. I meant to say some of the Morricone score!

[andrewleslieleslie4]

The music for this documentary is Ennio Morricones score for John Carpenters The Thing.