Artilce Shared From: The SF Gate
Written By: David L. Chandler, Boston Globe
Published 04:00 a.m., Friday, April 27, 2001
An ancient city in a remote Peruvian valley is more than 4,600
years old - - far older than any known city in this hemisphere and old
enough to rewrite the history of the New World -- according to a finding
reported in the current journal Science.
"This may actually be the birthplace of civilization in the Americas," said Winifred Creamer, one of the archaeologists responsible for the discovery.
Archaeologists have long believed that when the pharaoh Cheops was building the first of Egypt's great pyramids about 4,560 years ago, the Americas were still a tribal backwater of small hunter-gatherer villages.
"This may actually be the birthplace of civilization in the Americas," said Winifred Creamer, one of the archaeologists responsible for the discovery.
Archaeologists have long believed that when the pharaoh Cheops was building the first of Egypt's great pyramids about 4,560 years ago, the Americas were still a tribal backwater of small hunter-gatherer villages.
