Known as Caral, this 5,000-year-old settlement was the continent’s first truly complex city-state, and is thought to have flourished for over a millennium without the use of violence or repression.The rest of this article is behind a paywall.
Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered a structure at Áspero that appears to have been used to observe the sky, adding detail to what is known about early scientific practices in the CaralCivilisation.