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Posted on 06/17/2015 7:42:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Caral, the Americas’ oldest civilization, located north of present day Lima, Peru, faced a grave crisis as a result of climate change some 4,000 years ago, archaeologists said.
“Droughts were so severe that they could have lasted between 60 and 130 years, which could explain why there were social crises in (civilizations like) Caral, Moche and Tiahuanaco,” archaeologist Ruth Shady, director of the Caral Project, told Efe.
Women played leading roles in Caral and a team led by Shady has been working for eight years in Vichama, an urban center near the Vegueta district, in the northern province of Huaura, that archaeologists found looted and have restored.
“Vichama pertains to the last period in the formation of the Caral civilization, starting roughly 3000 B.C., but around 1900 B.C. there was a deep crisis that we are investigating, caused by climate change,” she said.
The conditions created a “deep crisis” in Caral and the site was abandoned, while, at the same time, around 1850 B.C., development was going on at Vichama “closer to the sea and a farming and fishing urban settlement,” Shady said.
Shady described Vichama as “a very interesting site” covering 20 hectares (49.3 acres), with 10 buildings, one of which has reliefs on the façade depicting an Andean cross.
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So, was the blowing sand caused by drought? We also have the interesting fact that many civilizations in the Middle East, Egypt, and probably China experienced major disruptions around 4000 years ago. Sunken Civ brought to our attention that a very large boloid caused crater of that age was found in the Iraq marshes after Saddam Hussein drained them. Such an even could have had world wide repercussions for many years. Has any more work been done to study that crater or its affects?
According to the study, the blowing sand was caused by earthquakes and landslides that exposed more sand to the wind so it could blow.
The area itself has always been extreme desert. The rivers from the Andes could have dried up, and that would have been disastrous for them. But they’d never had any rain in the area, so they wouldn’t miss it.
The area is similar in that regard to Egypt, where it almost never rains.
Posted to FR 14 years ago:
We’re all going to die:
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/06/20/06/26/humanity-facing-sixth-great-mass-extinction-event
Eeeeeeeeee! ;’)
Oh yeah, Paul Ehrlich, that’s a credible study.
:’) I put the keyword in the ping msg.
:’) Sorry, that sounded a little cranky up there.
Reminds me of the PC correct version of the Midwest American Indian tribes...
One with the land, gentle souls, spiritual people, only caught enough food to survive, bah, bah, bah...
The earlier settlers who tried to farm in the Midwest used to go hunting and would leave their wife's a small caliber gun with enough bullets to put one in each of their children heads and than one for themselves...
Suicide was a much better deal than being taken captive by plains Indians. ...
Plains Indians committed horrendous atrocities against settlers...
When Lewis and Clark went through they found that the Sioux and other tribes would travel hundreds of miles to attack the Shoshone and others that they had no conflict at all with. Except to raid, plunder, rape and kill.
Or look up the Moriori. A Polynesian people that actually did become pacifist in nature. Then whalers brought Maori from New Zealand to their islands, who promptly indulged in a decades-long orgy of rape, murder and enslavement.
Just seeing his name makes me cranky.
I was surprised he was still alive. Y’know, I figured someone would have killed him by now.
Born: 29 May 1932
I’m waiting read his obituary.
:’)
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