Sechin Bajo, the ceremonial plaza of 5,500 years in Peru is still waiting to be published

 Ancient ceremonial plaza found in Peru
By ANDREW WHALEN, Associated Press Writer 

LIMA, Peru – A team of German and Peruvian archaeologists say they have discovered the oldest known monument in Peru: a 5,500-year-old ceremonial plaza near Peru’s north-central coast. Carbon dating of material from the site revealed it was built between 3500 B.C. and 3000 B.C., Peter Fuchs, a German archaeologist who headed the excavation team.

The find also raises questions about what prompted “civilizations to form throughout the planet at more or less the same time,” Shady said.The circular, sunken plaza, built of stones and adobe, is part of the Sechin Bajo archaeological complex in Andes foothills, 206 miles northwest of Lima, where Fuchs and fellow German archaeologist Renate Patzschke have been working since 1992.It predates similar monuments and plazas found in Caral, which nonetheless remains the oldest known city in the Americas dating back to 2627 B.C.The plaza served as a social and ritual space where ancient peoples celebrated their “thoughts about the world, their place within it, and images of their world and themselves,” Fuchs said.In an adjacent structure, built around 1800 B.C., Fuchs’ team uncovered a 3,600-year-old adobe frieze — six feet tall — depicting the iconic image of a human sacrificer “standing with open arms, holding a ritual knife in one hand and a human head in the other,” Fuchs said.

The excavation was the fourth in a series of digs at the Sechin Bajo complex that Fuchs and Patzschke began on behalf of the University of Berlin in 1992. Deutsche Forschung Gemeinschaft, a German state agency created to sponsor scientific investigations, has financed the most recent three digs.

The find “shows the world that in America too, human beings of the New World had the same capacity to create civilization as those in the Old World,” Shady said.Her discovery, Caral, made headlines in 2001 when researchers carbon-dated material from the city back to 2627 B.C., proving that a complex urban center in the Americas thrived as a contemporary to ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt — 1,500 years earlier than previously believed.

Geomorphology of the Gavea Rock in Rio de Janeiro, BR

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Older Than Nazca: Mysterious Rock Lines Marked Way to Ancient Peru Fairs

Older Than Nazca: Mysterious Rock Lines Marked Way to Ancient Peru Fairs

Why NASA was asked to help in resolution of the Nazca lines enigma

The Nazca line Project was a small part of the oldest mathematical, geographical and geoartistic experiment in the history of the humanity. Yet discovery of the sophisticated system of recording distances, measering angles of a flight of the vessles, etc. has been baffling Europeans since Pedro Cieza de León in his book of 1553 described them as trail markers. First lines were probably drawn in the desert at the remote time (approx. 2.8 mln years BP) when the concept of documenting the mega-chakana was created. The megachakana is a symbol of the advanced civilization (since approx. 45 mln years BP) which centered its design where Mt. Meru in the perfect axial location rests a kilometer under calm waters of the Pacifc Ocean; it was measured, dimensioned and recorded with North direction pointing in our East direction, why? because the image of the Architect of the Universe is located near Mendoza, Argentina in such a way that to his right lies #Lanka of the fame of Ravana from #ramayana, and to his left lies the 2.5 kms 1.8 mile high pyramid #dhayanalinga in Antarctic, both 5,373 kms 3,336 miles of distance, forming with base of 4995 kms miles the largest isocoles triangle known to humanity during the last 34 mln years. Even though the megachakana has a form of equilateral cross, the principal direction was pointing towards the east. We might imagine that Ravana, the winged deity from epic Ramayana, used this codified information while he had overflown over these lines on his way from modern Chile to Ometepe Island in Nicaragua where his palace Lanka was located. Probably Rama with Sita and vanaras returning from Lanka to Ayodhya (modern city of Mendoza, Argentina) used the markers during their voyage, even though Ramayana had not mentioned this fact.

Later many different lines were added on; the last lines were created by indigenous living in the area probably around 2000 yr BP. An explanation was beyond the reach of the mind of a poorly educated invaders in 16-17th century; subjugating and controling reluctant subjects, and destroying evidence of the existence the 'higher culture' was their objective. In a newly 'discovered' land this policy has lasted almost 500 years duration since the ´discovery´ of the Nazca lines. The Nazca line Project was a small part of the oldest mathematical, geographical and geoartistic experiment in the proto-history of the humanity since 43 mln years BP. However its importance is being attacked by closed-minded critics who would not accept the idea that a more advanced civilization was leaving its small sketches on the surface of our planet to make life easier for them and for us (whenever we will figure out how to use them).

...from research on the Nazca lines....

".... line of the monkey continues as a zigzag shape considered the symbol for water by North American Indians and  Egyptians. In Nazca they call it “fineo mio,” mio, being the word for river. The Dipper, the Monkey, and the River has the origin in the water worship, the  divinity that had to be appealed to, by creating a huge image on the landscape to behold from high above, and implore to bring more water to the lands". 
The Mayan associated the Monkey with fertility and agriculture. 
The most sensible explanation for the existence of the figures, for their large size and perfect execution, is that they were made" to illustrate  

abstract and mathematically correct concepts of Time and Space" in which the society of Creators had lived approximately 2,500 years ago. They arrived from the other side of the Pacific Ocean much before to this inhospitable desert with an intention to travel and find water and fertile ground. They founded most of today's capitals in the S. America (see upcoming diagrams in the blog) and settled them with hard working & innovative beings who not only manipulated first useful plants (8,000 years ago potatoes, 11,000 yrs corn, etc.) but also built first roads and bridges, and harnessed water and wind in their projects. They also created the LARGEST MAP known to man, tracing the S. American continent with geoglyphs and marking it with points of reference (mountains peaks, carved & laboured gigantic  representation of their faces and familiar forms, sculpting the continental coastal areas, etc.). 

Santiago - the legendary city of "Inca Mapocho"

Thanks to the work of various researches, the most importantly archeologist Ruben Stehberg and Gonzalo Sotomayor, we are pleased to include their article titled "Inca Mapocho", which is summing up almost 40 years since the re-discovery of the Pucara/Huaca of the Cerro Chena, approx. 20 km south of the Chile's capital, Santiago.

http://www.dibam.cl/Recursos/Noticias/Museo%20Nacional%20de%20Historia%20Natural/archivos/Art%C3%ADculo%20Mapocho%20Incaico%20MNHN.pdf

illustration: Guamán Poma de Ayala

Inca Roads - the Frank Zappa´s tribute to the most extensive world road system, the Qhapaq Nan - 40 years ago