The site of Caral and the cluster of eighteen similarly dated sites located in the Supe Valley of Peru are important because together they represent the earliest known civilization in the America continents — nearly 4600 years before the present.
The site of Caral and the cluster of eighteen similarly dated sites located in the Supe Valley of Peru are important because together they represent the earliest known civilization in the America continents — nearly 4600 years before the present. They were discovered only about twenty years ago because their pyramids were so massive everyone thought they were natural hills.