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Caral is among the oldest cities in the Americas
Builders in coastal Peru raised platform pyramids around 2600 BCE, without pottery The site of Caral in the Supe valley was occupied from about 2600 to 2000 BCE, roughly contemporary with the first Egyptian pyramids. Its people built sunken plazas and stone-faced platform mounds, and traded cotton and dried fish for goods from the highlands. No ceramics have been found there, though woven bags survive. It sits in Mondo's history collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Caral is among the oldest cities in the Americas: the short answers
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- Builders in coastal Peru raised platform pyramids around 2600 BCE, without pottery. The figure is taken from UNESCO World Heritage Centre, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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- Yes. It sits on the History shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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