Reveals 5 thousand-year-old woman data on Caral culture

The remains of a 5,000-year-old woman, who would have belonged to the elite of the Caral civilization, were recovered by Peruvian archaeologists. The discovery was announced this Thursday in the capital of Peru by David Palomino, director of the team of specialists in charge of the research project of one of the oldest cultures in the world that settled in the north of the country. The burial was found in the Huaca de los Idols, in the framework…

The find shows that this culture was more advanced than previously believed and that women held important roles.

A group of Peruvian archaeologists have discovered among the remains of the Caral civilization, the oldest in America, the burial of a woman of high status, dated between 3,000 and 1,800 BC, who keeps her body in good condition surrounded by numerous offerings, some of them arrivals from the Amazon.

A group of Peruvian archaeologists discovered among the remains of the Caral civilization, the oldest in America, the burial of a woman of high status, dated between 3,000 and 1,800 B.C., who keeps her body in good condition surrounded by numerous offerings, some of them arrivals from the Amazon. The entrance Discover the tomb of a woman of almost 5,000 years in American civilization was first published in Digital Process.