The Andean Pyramid Summary

The first set of men and women to set foot in the Americas came from northern Asia, 40,000 years ago during the Upper Paleolithic era. It is widely accepted that the first people to inhabit America crossed the Bering Strait when the sea level dropped and a land bridge (known as Beringia) between Alaska and Siberia was formed. Eventually these people made their way down the Isthmus of Panama into south America, they spread throughout the continent, with the earliest evidence for settlement in the region being 15,000 B.C. during the Lithic Period. This blog aims to analyze and explore the Andean region as one of the centers of independent civilization development.
Five thousand years ago, on the banks of the Nile, Egypt was already ancient, Mesopotamia flourished between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and in China and India the first commercial companies were being founded. A culture of similar complexity began to form in the central coast of Peru. This place was known as Caral and currently stands as one of
An Andean pyramid much like an Egyptian one is a building of great proportions used and commissioned by the chiefs (leaders) as the center of their activities, for any manner of religious, political or economic means. It served as a physical symbol and center of power demonstrating the state/chiefdom’s power over the people/tribe. However unlike Egyptian Pyramids religious leaders would host ceremonies that would determine the established order of dates and holidays which was indicated by a ceremonial. Caral pyramids are some of the oldest pyramids in the Americas and dating back to as far as 5000 years (about 3000 B.C.) ago. Build structures of this type requires a high degree of technological and social organization to address the problems of its construction and the high cost of materials and energy and