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Celestial Find at Ancient Andes Site The discovery in Peru of a 4,200-year-old temple and observatory pushes back estimates of the rise of an advanced culture in the Americas. By Thomas H. Maugh II LA Times Staff Writer May 14, 2006 Archeologists working high in the Peruvian Andes have discovered th...

Latest News in Peru / Archive Art/Culture/History | 26 March, 2007 [ 11:34 ] Peru: Bandurria may rival Caral as oldest citadel in Americas -- A team of specialists headed by archaeologist Alejandro Chu has informed that structures found in Bandurria may be as old as structures found in Caral, Peru, ...

'Brazilian Stonehenge' discovered By Steve Kingstone BBC News, Sao Paulo Brazilian archaeologists have found an ancient stone structure in a remote corner of the Amazon that may cast new light on the region's past. The site, thought to be an observatory or place of worship, pre-dates European coloni...

A “News Focus” article from SCIENCE 4 FEBRUARY 2000 VOL287:786-789 http://www.sciencemag.org/ Are the mounds, causeways, and canals in Bolivia’s Beni region natural formations or the result of 2000 years’ labor by lost societies? Earthmovers of the Amazon by Charles C. Mann TRINIDAD, BOLIVIA—In some...

The first American civilisation sprang up rapidly on the central Peruvian coast more than 5000 years ago, new research has revealed. In less than 150 years, people went "from small hunter-gatherer bands to great big permanent communities with monumental architectures," says Jonathan Haas o...

Public release date: 7-Jul-2003 [ Print This Article | Close This Window ] Contact: Bénédicte Robert presse@paris.ird.fr 33-1-48 03 75 19 Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement Human settlements already existed in the Amazon Basin (Equador) 4000 years ago The eastern slopes of the Andean Cordil...

August 20, 2005 Peruvian pyramids rival the pharaohs' By Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent  RUINS on Peru’s desert coast dated to some 4,700 years ago suggest an earlier focus of civilisation than any so far identified in the New World. The site of Caral, in the Supe Valley north of Lima, c...

Back to human activity in the 200 to 300 BC time frame. While doing some houskeep on my South American folder, I found these. Turns out there was a lot going on over here back then. There is a total of eight files, one per posting. A complex society in Uruguay, 4,800 years ago A complex farming soci...

This is just off the top of my head, but isn’t the Saudi peninsula one of those little plates that gets shoved around quite a bit?
What direction and how much in 4000 years?

Second: There may have been some climate changes going on. Tablets that may reveal El Niño secrets are feared lost in Iraq By Ben Russell, Political Correspondent 09 June 2003 The secrets of El Niño, one of the most mysterious and destructive weather systems, could be unlocked by hundreds of thousan...

Second: There may have been some climate changes going on. News Notes Geoarcheology Mesopotamian climate change Geoscientists are increasingly exploring an interesting trend: Climate change has been affecting human society for thousands of years. At the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in D...

Haven’t found the falling star hit data yet, but this is some stuff I found in my hunt through my archives. First the interest in the Sun got around fast. (Or stayed around a long time.) Study sheds fresh light on Dilmun By REBECCA TORR Published: 20 June 2005 A SAUDI archaeologist is rounding up a ...

You are right Digit. When you are explaining thing to someone, you have to use terms that they understand. That is one of the explanations used about many of the Biblical writings referring to locations. The critics says the writer refers to kingdoms, or governments, or whatever that did not exist a...

I am trying to find the reference, but I seem to remember they found a nice round hole in the swamps of Southern Iraq. A lot like Lake Okeechobee in Florida. If that hit was in this time frame, and depending on the current water level, I would expect a lot of water going up and then coming down. Som...

Charlie: You made me look up Peleg. It will be a path to follow, but I expect it will fade pretty fast. (BTW it would be easier if you sited chapter as well as verse. But I found it OK.) It does say "In his days," so that would seem to indicate he was alive and saw it happen. Maybe the who...