The Norte Chico civilization in Peru is the oldest civilization in the Americas.

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What was life like in North America before the European colonists arrived? 

 

The Americas before Columbus arrived were far busier, more diverse, and more populated than previously known.
 

Homes were furnished with straw or cane mats, pottery, basketry, and wooden utensils. As family groups and larger bands formed around productive agricultural or hunting grounds, villages developed. Some villages were surrounded by protective palisades, and most included a council house for public gatherings.

Before 1492, modern-day Mexico, most of Central America, and the southwestern United States comprised an area now known as Meso or Middle America.

What Was Life Really Like In America Before Columbus? | 1491 | Chronicle, https://youtu.be/7QwuIEH4Jq8. These are the origins of ancient Indigenous societies in the Americas before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. This series tells us about indigenous peoples of the Americas before European colonialism. We learn about their art, food, architecture, archaeology, government, science, technology, etc.

Before the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the region of South America was home to many indigenous peoples, a number of which had advanced civilizations, most notably from South; the Olmec, Maya, Muisca and Inca.

What is the oldest culture in South America? The Norte Chico civilization in Peru (also known as Caral-Supe) is the oldest civilization in the Americas and one of the first six independent civilizations in the world; it was contemporaneous with the Egyptian pyramids.  

Complex society in Caral-Supe arose a millennium after Sumer in Mesopotamia was contemporaneous with the Egyptian pyramids, and predated the Mesoamerican Olmec by nearly two millennia. 

This civilization flourished along three rivers, the Fortaleza, the Pativilca, and the Supe. These river valleys each have large clusters of sites. Farther south, there are several associated sites along the Huaura River. The alternative name, Caral-Supe, is derived from the city of Caral in the Supe Valley, a large and well-studied Caral-Supe site.

Excavations of South American sites containing traces of ancient human activity have suggested that humans reached the southern region of the continent at least 14,500 years before the present (BP)—remarkably quickly after first entering the Americas—and that they soon developed diverse technologies across different sites.

The history of the Caribbean did not begin in 1492 when Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas. The islands were already inhabited by the Ciboney, Arawak and Carib peoples from mainland America. The Ciboney were a food-gathering and hunting people who may have migrated from Florida in southern North America.

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