The Norte Chico civilization society include about 30 major populations in what is now the Norte Chico region of north central coastal Peru. Norte Chico is known as the oldest known civilization the Americas, I which it flourished between the thirteenth century B.C.E. and the eighteenth century B.C.E. This society had emerged just a millennium after Sumer, where there was pyramids of Ancient Egypt. Norte Chico completely lacked ceramic and was greatly without art. The biggest accomplishment of the civilization was its monumental architecture, which includes large platform mounds and sunken circular plazas. There was archeological evidence that suggest the use of textile technology and inferences that the worship of common god symbols, …show more content…
Located in Caral, the edible domesticated plants such as squash, beans, Lucama, guava, pacay, and camote. There was also a significant seafood component, at both coastal and inland sites.
Cotton provided the basis of the influence of inland overcoats. Even though cotton was not edible, it was the most important product of irrigation in the Norte Chico. The prehistoric residents of Norte Chico needed the fish resources for their protein and the fishermen needed the cotton to make their nets to catch the fish.
Possible evidence of feasting, which includes music and most likely alcohol, suggest and elite able to both mobilize and recognize the population. Labor mobilization may have been one of the factors in suggesting the point to a unique emergence of human government, one of two alongside Sumer. Economic authority in the Norte Chico civilization would have rested on the control of cotton and edible plants which leads to trade relationships, with powered centered on the inland sites. There has been suggestion of economic power base may have extended widely. There have been only two confirmed shore sited in Norte Chico and possibly two more. It is most possible that the major inland center of Norte Chico was at the center of a regional trade