Never trust journalists!
Posted On: Jun 26th, 2015 at 12:19
Peru
Something is wrong with this article!
A great discovery of buildings that must have preceded the heyday of Moche culture is one finding, but it says the objects / buildings found coincide with the typology of the Moche. So that would put the finds at an earlier stage of Moche culture, which dates from around 100 AD to 700 AD.
This report, however, puts the dates at 1700-1800!
I can assure you the Moche were long gone by the time the Spanish were well established in the Americas!
Also, if the dates have been mistaken by adding a thousand years then they are still wrong because the earlier phase of the Moche was not 700-800 AD.
Journalists are not always the best people to report on archaeological findings…
Something is wrong with this article!
A great discovery of buildings that must have preceded the heyday of Moche culture is one finding, but it says the objects / buildings found coincide with the typology of the Moche. So that would put the finds at an earlier stage of Moche culture, which dates from around 100 AD to 700 AD.
This report, however, puts the dates at 1700-1800!
I can assure you the Moche were long gone by the time the Spanish were well established in the Americas!
Also, if the dates have been mistaken by adding a thousand years then they are still wrong because the earlier phase of the Moche was not 700-800 AD.
Journalists are not always the best people to report on archaeological findings…
The conclusion? The journalist added a “0” on the end – the dates should be 170-180 AD…
