The Norte Chico Civilization: The Forgotten First Cities of the Americas

Podcast: Lost and Hidden History · Forbidden Knowledge Network

Opublikowano: 2026-08-12

Nearly five thousand years ago, communities in the dry river valleys of Peru’s north-central coast built monumental platform mounds, sunken circular plazas, residential compounds, and ceremonial centers. The best-known site is Caral, located above the Supe River about one hundred and eighty kilometers north of Lima. Its age, established through radiocarbon dating of organic material from ancient construction deposits, placed major development between roughly 3000 and 1800 BCE. The hidden-history claim is not that Caral was physically concealed from local people or unknown before modern archaeology. Its mounds remained in the landscape. The missing part wa...