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Well, why not? Couldn't the original cities(if there were any) have been engulfed in some catastrophe and the survivors decided not to build on the coastline ever again. So they build in the mountains and have a peaceful loving civilization for a while. Then maybe later the aliens came and got themMinimalist wrote:Perhaps on the continental shelf?
I mean I'm all out of maybe's 
Darn. Do you think he'll sue me?Minimalist wrote:That is Hancock's theory, Star, almost exactly.
, I go along with the rest of it. If my place sank beneath the waves I'd run as far and high as I could go before rebuilding. Even nutcases have a valid idea(or part of one) every now and again 
"We're going to be able to learn about the social system, the economic and political organization, the ideology," Shady said of the excavations throughout the Supe Valley.
"It's very important because it's the oldest civilization in America. And for that reason, native peoples see it as a symbol that in America there had been the same capacity to create civilizations as ancient as in the Old World.
nope its very important because it is the site that Dr Ruth Shady is in charge ofIt's very important because it's the oldest civilization in America
http://www.calacademy.org/calwild/2005s ... izons.htmlIn the winter of 2004, Haas, Creamer, and Alvaro Ruiz, also of Northern Illinois University, published new carbon dates taken from 20 other large urban sites near Caral. Their results, reported in the journal Nature, pushed the record of urban occupation in the region back by another 500 years, to about 3100 BC.
Located in the neighboring Supe, Patavilca, and Fortaleza Valleys, all the sites have the circular plazas, mounds, and lack of ceramics that mark Caral and Aspero. All were constructed within a century of one another, and continuously inhabited for about 1,200 years.
The findings establish without a doubt that the people of the central coast of Peru, a region Haas and colleagues call the Norte Chico, had by far the most advanced civilization in the Americas at the time. In fact, the central coast of Peru was one of only six places in the world-including Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, and Mexico-where the first cities were built.
Caral turns out to be just one of the sites that blossomed during this time period. It documents the idea that this was a regional phenomenon, that a set of three interconnected valleys are part of this cultural phenomenon," Haas says. "If you looked at the 20 largest sites in the New World at that time, all 20 were in the Norte Chico."
Norte Chico has so many ancient inland cities that archeologists are wondering where all their seafood came from. Isotope analysis of mussel and clam shells from inland middens should pinpoint their precise coastal origins.
Additional studies of human skeletal remains from cemeteries around many of the cities should tell how much of their diet came from the land versus the waters of the Pacific. These findings should help settle the debate over whether this civilization truly owes its roots to
the sea.
http://www.jqjacobs.net/andes/coast.htmlThe Aspero site yielded the earliest date of all Early horizon structures (Moseley and Willey 1973:465). Dating is available for the two largest platform mounds. The Huaca de los Idolos radiocarbon measurements span from 4900 ± 160 B.P. to 3970 ± 145 B.P.
It's interesting Stan. There is quite a bit to the Caral story. We'll have to keep up with it.I am going to read it tomorrow.
I would say a strictly south american supe valley scaleIt seems that the sudden urge to become agrarian and build cities happened at the same time on a global scale
