Caral continues to surprise to the scientific community and the world

The world scientific community is still stunned with advanced knowledge in agronomy, climatology, engineering, medicine and other sciences that had 5,000 years ago that populated the Peruvian Caral, said the researcher Ruth Shady.

He stressed that to develop agricultural calendars and predict weather events laboratories that allowed them to determine the beginning and end of the sowing and harvesting campaigns, as well as changes that nature has to adapt to them were installed.

"In the field of energy efficiency and fluid mechanics, in Caral force wind took advantage, now known as Venturi principle, channeling it through underground pipes to have very high temperatures in furnaces," he said.

Shady said that when this knowledge was analyzed by physicists from the United States, they are asked how this civilization knew this 5,000 years ago, when Europe was discovered recently in 1740.

"In the field of pharmacology, in Caral We have found that for ailments such as headaches sauce packets containing the active ingredient of aspirin was applied. This ancestral knowledge survives until today," he said.

The researcher of the Caral civilization stressed that other knowledge that continues to surprise has to do with civil engineering, since the earthquake resistance of buildings 5,000 years ago with bases and applied seismic structures.

"A Belgian engineer who saw it said that knowledge that the ancient Peruvians were developed in at least six centuries to Europe and the rest of Latin knowledge of hydraulic engineering, civil, structural and agricultural" he said.

Source: Andina.

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Caral considered one of the 10 unforgettable findings of 2015

Caral considered one of the 10 unforgettable findings of 2015 according to National Geographic. "The Caral is the oldest civilization in the Americas," said Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady to this medium. The archaeological team unearthed three complete runs no clay figurines, two heads of the same material and numerous reliefs of starving characters that are an allegory of drought, famine and death he endured this culture. 

The disturbing expression of the three statuettes has not faded over the millennia. Most depicts a shaman priestess or showing breasts and genitals. The other two statues, with twenty fingers each, representing two characters in the hierarchy. "Women played a prominent religious, economic and political, as can be evidenced in the recovered material role activities," says Shady. "When the Spanish arrived in Peru they said that the natives were weak because they let women rule"

Caral is the cradle of as old as the Egyptian Memphis Andean civilization and culture that flourished in this holy city is considered the oldest in America, at least to date. Throughout the month of June, the Ministry of Culture of Peru has announced a series of findings about 3,800 years old that shed light on a remote culture that survived in an area hit by drought. The archaeological team led by Ruth Shady has unearthed three complete no clay figurines, two heads of the same material and numerous reliefs of starving characters that are an allegory of drought, famine and death he endured this culture.

Source: National Geographic.

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