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Caral Pyramids
Caral Peru is located 200 kilometers north of Lima, at 23 Km west of Supe, built during the third millennium B.C, a huge urban conglomerate assembled mostly by pyramids, astonishes for its early development and size not equaled even a few millenniums later by other later cultures that flourished much later in the Americas.
Radiocarbon readings at this city gives a start around 2627 B.C. at times of the Great Giza Pyramids; only surpassed by a small sunken plaza temple at Sechin barely 150 km north of Caral, it gives a surprisingly date parallel to late Egyptian pre dynastic Naqada I period (4400-3500).
At Caral there are no signs of ceramic development, probably due to the use of “calabazos”, plant similar to an elongated squash but has a smoother and harder core, when dried and emptied it is much practical and less fragile than ceramic, they are use as dishes, also to drink or store liquids, and even to carry thing on top of their head according to the shape attained before drying; when complemented with use of sea shells replaces ceramic utility for all their needs. However Caral reached an exceptional irrigations infrastructure that busted their agriculture product-ion that permitted the development of an intense trading commerce beyond their frontiers to very far away places.
Caral has three round sunken plazas, the biggest has a diameter over 45 meters it is of general opinion that this plazas are a strong characteristic transmitted from the early cultural awakening of ancient Peru this trend continues in Chavin de Huantar Temple center (900 BC) and even persisted as late as 1450 A.C.
Round plazas are also found in the Inca solar temples like Koricancha in Cuzco, the central shrine of Pisac and on top of Sacsahuaman even so that also is a fortress built over a hill looking at Cuzco, there a is a round plaza with divisions that apparently shows that they had implications for astronomical observation, reason why this practice was carried so long through millenniums.
The biggest pyramid in Caral's architectonic compound is a known as "Piramide Mayor," its dimensions are close to 140 by 150 meters by 19 meters high, the rest of the buildings are similar pyramids built in terraces looking as step pyramids but they were not use exclusively for burials and had multiple employment for different daily needs and circumstances. Although that the masonry stones lack a fine polishing finish and apparently lack decoration, they are precisely ensemble showing that they were meticulous and had a profound knowledge in stone construction and logistics needs indispensables in order to conceive and produce a ceremonial place of this volume and dimensions.
Caral is like a rectangular amphitheatre of enormous capacity surrounded by six pyramids around, capable to housed a large population as well accommodated thousands of people during festivities and commerce practices. Moreover, in the Supe valley perimeter were also other 17 urban places that added to an immense human conglomerate that also gathered people from adjacent regions.
Radiocarbon readings at this city gives a start around 2627 B.C. at times of the Great Giza Pyramids; only surpassed by a small sunken plaza temple at Sechin barely 150 km north of Caral, it gives a surprisingly date parallel to late Egyptian pre dynastic Naqada I period (4400-3500).
At Caral there are no signs of ceramic development, probably due to the use of “calabazos”, plant similar to an elongated squash but has a smoother and harder core, when dried and emptied it is much practical and less fragile than ceramic, they are use as dishes, also to drink or store liquids, and even to carry thing on top of their head according to the shape attained before drying; when complemented with use of sea shells replaces ceramic utility for all their needs. However Caral reached an exceptional irrigations infrastructure that busted their agriculture product-ion that permitted the development of an intense trading commerce beyond their frontiers to very far away places.
Caral has three round sunken plazas, the biggest has a diameter over 45 meters it is of general opinion that this plazas are a strong characteristic transmitted from the early cultural awakening of ancient Peru this trend continues in Chavin de Huantar Temple center (900 BC) and even persisted as late as 1450 A.C.
Round plazas are also found in the Inca solar temples like Koricancha in Cuzco, the central shrine of Pisac and on top of Sacsahuaman even so that also is a fortress built over a hill looking at Cuzco, there a is a round plaza with divisions that apparently shows that they had implications for astronomical observation, reason why this practice was carried so long through millenniums.
The biggest pyramid in Caral's architectonic compound is a known as "Piramide Mayor," its dimensions are close to 140 by 150 meters by 19 meters high, the rest of the buildings are similar pyramids built in terraces looking as step pyramids but they were not use exclusively for burials and had multiple employment for different daily needs and circumstances. Although that the masonry stones lack a fine polishing finish and apparently lack decoration, they are precisely ensemble showing that they were meticulous and had a profound knowledge in stone construction and logistics needs indispensables in order to conceive and produce a ceremonial place of this volume and dimensions.
Caral is like a rectangular amphitheatre of enormous capacity surrounded by six pyramids around, capable to housed a large population as well accommodated thousands of people during festivities and commerce practices. Moreover, in the Supe valley perimeter were also other 17 urban places that added to an immense human conglomerate that also gathered people from adjacent regions.
