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Dating Caral, a Preceramic Site in the Supe Valley on the Central Coast of Peru

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Norte Chico / Caral-Supe

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Primary radiocarbon study establishing monumental construction and occupation at preceramic Caral; supports early complexity without demonstrating Atlantis or Old World transmission.

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Norte Chico / Caral-Supe

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Norte Chico and Caral-Supe formed an early, locally grounded center of complex society in the Americas, documented by radiocarbon-dated monumental sites across multiple valleys.

Norte Chico / Caral-Supe is a major early civilization topic. It proves that the Americas had complex monumental societies very early, and it complicates any model that treats civilization as a single Old World invention spreading everywhere else.
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Caral is among the earliest securely dated monumental, urban, or city-like centers in the Americas, with terminology dependent on explicit criteria for urbanism.

Answer / theory: It is one of the strongest candidates for the oldest known urban or city-like center in the Americas. Evidence level: Strong Evidence with definition caution.
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The dated regional sequence and locally specific subsistence debates support development within the north-central Andean context; the catalog provides no Old World transmission evidence.

Answer / theory: Current evidence supports local development better than Old World diffusion. Evidence level: Strong Evidence.
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The CM-160 archaeological catalog supplies no chronological, material, textual, or transmission evidence connecting Norte Chico or Caral-Supe to Atlantis.

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