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CARAL, LIMA

The first civilization of Peru and the Americas was created somewhere between 3,000 and 2,500 BC in the Supe valley, on the basis of a group of communities located in urban conglomerates: This organizational model influenced the development of later civilizations

Caral, has been described by its excavators as the oildest urban center in the Americas, accommodating more than 3,000 inhabitants and forming the center of a Caral Supe Civilization, spread over several settlements along the Peruvian coast.

The Caral pyramids was built on an alluvial desert terrace, at the starting point of the middle valley of Supe, at 350 meters above sea level; this being the most important urban conglomerate, due to its extension and architectural complexity, of all those that have been identified on the "New Continent" of America, in the 3,000 to 2,000 BC period.

Paul Kosok "discovered" Caral in 1948, but it received little attention until recently because it appeared to lack many typical artifacts that were sought at sites. Archaeologist Ruth Shady further explored the 5,000 year-old city of pyramids in the Peruvian desert, with its elaborate complex of temples, an amphitheatre and ordinary houses.

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