THE BEGINNING OF CIVILIZATION IN THE AMERICAS
- From: michaelruggeri@xxxxxxx (http://groups.google.com)
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:58:55 +0000
Listeros,
NPR had a program on Caral and Norte Chico yesterday. Jonathan Haas
has been working for the last 8 years on why people settled in this
desert area after he found sea shells there. He believes there was a
climate change perhaps related to El Nino which pushed out the warm
ocean clams and mussels that coastal people relied on and brought in
cold water fish at 3000 BCE. Many fishermen moved inland to escape the
unpredictable weather. A new trade system developed inland as the
inland people traded cotton and squash to the remaining fishermen for
shell fish and the new desert folks began to build the ancient cities
and pyramids of Norte Chico including Caral.
Haas is taking sediment cores near the ocean and studying shell rings
to try and verify his weather change hypothesis. This change and move
inland to build the ancient cities of Norte Chico began the evolution
of the Andean civilizations.
NPR has the radio program here and a slide show;
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18888119
Mike Ruggeri
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Andean World
http://tinyurl.com/2o79jy
Mike Ruggeri's Andean Archaeology News and Links
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MikeRuggerisAndean/index.html
Andean and Amazonian Archaeology Discussion Group
http://tinyurl.com/2fnzpm
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