In addition, they combined the maritime exploitation with the production of crops like chile, avocado, and squash, obtaining a “great economic surplus”. Researchers estimate they are 13,500 to 15,000 years old.Tom Dillehayįor example, the variety of hooks discovered by experts demonstrates that this ancient civilization managed to fish at different depths, and therefore had developed vessels that were more resistant to turbulent waters. Simple one-sided stone tools used for cutting and scraping were found at the sites. Adovasio, Ph.D., D.Sc., co-author of the study and a world acclaimed archaeologist at FAU’s Harbor Branch. “The mounds of artifacts retrieved from Huaca Prieta include food remains, stone tools and other cultural features such as ornate baskets and textiles, which really raise questions about the pace of the development of early humans in that region and their level of knowledge and the technology they used to exploit resources from both the land and the sea,” said James M. Adovasio says that the pieces recovered-food supplies, stone tools, ornamental baskets, and textiles-demonstrate the “pace of development” and the level of “knowledge and technology” used by the first inhabitants of the region which allowed them to exploit maritime and terrestrial resources. Image credit: Tom Dillehay, Vanderbilt University / Florida Atlantic University. Right: basket remnants retrieved from the Huaca Prieta site were made from diverse materials including a local reed that is still used today by modern basket makers. Left: 10,500-year old fragment of a mat woven from rush stalks. Radiocarbon dating indicated the presence of humans in an “intermittent” period between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago. The study published in the journal Science Advances was based on the discovery of hundreds of thousands of artifacts found between 20 in Huaca Prieta, an archaeological site on the Peruvian coast that houses one of the largest and oldest pyramids in South America-the Temple Mound of Huaca Prieta. It had a very structured social organization and could be the oldest one established in the area. Adovasio says that its inhabitants had a remarkable ability to use different types of food resources, which led them to become a huge and dominant society some 15,000 years ago.Īrchaeologists at the Atlantic University of Florida (USA) revealed conclusive evidence confirming that around 15,000 years ago, an advanced and complex civilization existed in Peru. Dillehay, Vanderbilt University / Science Advances, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602778.Ī team fo experts made a groundbreaking discovery in coastal Peru-home to one of the earliest pyramids in South America: Thousands of artifacts, including elaborate hand-woven baskets, show that early humans in that region were a lot more advanced than originally thought and had very complex social networks, reports the Florida Atlantic University.Ĭo-author of the study James M. Scale shown by humans standing on the mounds. Huaca Prieta mound situated on the Sangamon Terrace: buried terrace surface with Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene cultural deposits is indicated by dotted line below the mound arrows show location of individual units excavated from the top of the mound down through and to the buried cultural deposits in the terrace. It also proves to mainstream science that early civilizations were much more skilled and advanced than what we credit them today.Ancient Pyramids Excavations reveals extremely COMPLEX civilization 15,000 years ago.Įxperts in Peru have discovered the remains of a complex and advanced civilization that existed in South America some 15,000 years ago. The 1200-year-old telephone proves that we have very little knowledge of our ancestors. This can be shown by their hydraulic canal irrigation systems and their highly detailed, elaborate metalwork and artifacts. Matos, an anthropologist, and archaeologist specializing in the study of the central Andes explained, “The Chimu were a skillful, inventive people,” who possessed an impressive engineering society. The precious telephone, with the seemingly magical ability to channel voices across space to be heard directly in the ear of the receiver was, “a tool designed for an executive level of communication” said Matos. Researchers are certain that this is one of the best examples of ancient man’s ingenuity, even though they know the exact purpose of the device, experts are still wondering how the ancient Chimu used the 1200-year-old phone and for what exact purpose.Īmong the ancient Chimu, this device would have been an extremely valuable possession worthy of their nobles.
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