4,600-year-old remains of a woman found at the Americas oldest civilisation

Posted On: Jul 16th, 2016 at 18:26

Peru
The 4,600-year-old remains of a woman who clearly had high status have been found at Aspero, part of the Caral civilisation.
The woman was buried with many fine items, including fine woven cloth, a shell necklace and bone brooches. The woman reached the ripe old age of between 40 and 50 years old when she died.
Caral is the oldest known civilisation in the entire American continent to date. It won’t be too long before an older one is found, I am sure, and most likely it will be in a similar region.
I stick by my own theory that South America was populated long before the north.

http://www.archaeology.org/issues/221-1607/trenches/4543-trenches-peru-caral-woman