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The oldest civilization in America

Ancient history and settlement.

The millennial civilization of Caral, the oldest in America, can be considered as a symbol of identity and national integration. Seated in the Supe district, Barranca, to 193 Kilometers to the north of Lima, has an economic complex organization, politics and social, also an ideology and cosmovisión that are being discovered as the excavation works and investigation continuing.

It was a town of scientific and technological evident achievements. The investigators found vestiges that date of 5000 years. The samples belong to the Archaic Late Period (3000 to 1800 years B. C.)

In the Sacred City of Caral has been valuable pieces like the oldest quipu in the continent and musical diverse instruments as flutes, comets, antaras and quenas.

 

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