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Depends on who you believe.
The site at Monte Verde Chile predates Clovis by a thousand years, giving the SA locals over 13,000 years to develop the culture. However, the Monte Verde dates were (last I looked) being called into question once again, after they had finally been accepted.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
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Most if not all the major Olmec stone carvings that survive to this day show massive amounts of damage in some form. It has been speculated that the damage was caused by rivals or later cultures defacing their work.
I theorize the reason why these stone carvings were heavily damaged and strewn throughout the jungle is possibly due to some form a titanic destructive force leaving only these few sculptures. Maybe a huge Volcanic eruption followed by a huge tsunami could have ripped apart ancient temples and flung them all over the surrounding area.
Originally posted by Kandinsky
reply to post by Harte
Depends on who you believe.
The site at Monte Verde Chile predates Clovis by a thousand years, giving the SA locals over 13,000 years to develop the culture. However, the Monte Verde dates were (last I looked) being called into question once again, after they had finally been accepted.
It's frustrating sometimes. Is it Sam Vanlandingham's dates? Or Dillehay's?
With or without the extra thousand years, we have a period of migration into NA ~13kya and a fairly sophisticated city complex ~7000 years later in S America. Taking into account the generations it would take to reach the area, settle and enjoy population growth to sustain a civilisation, it seems remarkable.
Their contemporaries over in Sumeria, for example, had the advantage of neighbours, trade routes and a long period of agrarian culture to support technology and growth. The guys in Caral wouldn't have those opportunities or advantages. On the other hand, it's easier to be a peaceful people without neighbours...
Fascinating stuff!
Originally posted by franspeakfree
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The ruins of Tiahuanuco have been regarded by all students of American antiquities as in many respects the most interesting and important, and at the same time most enigmatical, of any on the continent. They have excited the admiration and wonder alike of the earliest and latest travelers, most of whom, vanquished in their attempts to penetrate the mystery of their origin, have been content to assign them an antiquity beyond that of the other monuments of America, and to regard them as the solitary remains of a civilization that disappeared before that of the Incas began, and contemporaneous with that of Egypt and the East. Unique, yet perfect in type and harmonious in style, they appear to be the work of a people who were thorough masters of an architecture which had no infancy, passed through no period of growth, and of which we find no other examples.