farewell eurocetrism and americanism
Incredible! I visited an archeological site in Peru. Located near Lima, it has recently been displayed to the world and UNESCO have considered it a world patrimony because its record date is 5000 years old! it means that history has to be revised and modified in civilization interpretation.This citadel is considered the 2nd oldest one in the world (and 1st in America Continent) This means that native peruvians did a civilization before greece, rome, china, india and even Egipt. Only Mesopotamia is considered a little older......listen up, a little,.. because the archeological research (using carbone 14)still continues and it is possible that it may surpasse that record
My foreign visitors were shocked .They felt something has ended and started because all the rigid historical papers broke down and thus will need some change on focus. World progress was not a uniform, linear evolution. It was/and is- a non-linear, multiform one
Farewell eurocentrism and americanism!. Latinamerica , Africa, Asia should be proud of this discovery and display because that construction and elaboration of art and science broke the mental european stereotype (and thus northamerican one) on a great deal of people when determining history and culture on them and in these lands.
Carlos
Comments (19)
Varna Necropolis in Bulgaria, Europe, is more than 6000 year-old.
It belongs to a unique civilization.
I appreciate your blog and still I don't think we should "measure" our cultural heritage, since it belongs to all the humanity.
Caral was not a necropolis. In Peru we have lots of necropolis which surpasses those records of Varna ,Bulgaria data.China, Egipt and Sumeria have their record in necropolis as well.
Very tricky. The difference of burials and necropolis is that the last one is well organized as if a supposedly culture exist (no necessarily, old human were migrants and they buried thei dead people in many ways such Necropolis, "Fardos" and pesonalized tombs.
Sumeria, Cara, Giza(Egipt) China, India were civilizaions (it means : settlements
Thanks for your link
It is a new discovery that resulted back in 1969 then in 1994 and finally 2004. Then confirmed in 2007 and accepted in 2009
Nazca lines were in a period after this civilization(around 1000 before the era)It was discovered during the 60s, and lived around 300 years. Caral existed for 1000 years
It is not a necropolis . It is a urban area where you can find pyramids, an auditorium, an astronomic site and paths. They survived based on agriculture and fishing
The Varna necropolis is certainly around 6000 (Caral is around 5000 and maybe more) but it was a migration of people not a settlement
Caral was correlated on time with Sumeria and Mesopotamia. Caral also cultivated arts and science. There is a religious implication on them but there are artifacts and even a "Quipu" a kind of accounting system
the former discussion with the bulgarian woman
Carlos
settlement is a complete one, which includes offices to rule the population, auditoriums, churches, necropolis (cementeries) camps, etc A settlement is a total construction . The Necropolis part of it.
We have cementeries in several parts of the world with records like that. The point is Settlements not necropolis
Any construction you can find anywhere means that someone or people had lived in there. That doesn´t give less worth than others . It means only that the settlement is the most complete infraestructure for many reasons:
Administration of other subactivities
Social division of work
Science and arts
Hub of other regions around
The top level of an organization from the past is a settlement
(or a city) Primitive communism and transitional periods to the emerge of social classes are welcome , but they do not have the value and importance like a setlements in history
Caral is that importance and level as Sumeria, Egipt, Rome, Greece, China, India, etc