Talk:Caral–Supe civilization

To do

http://www.athenapub.com/archnew2.htm http://caralperu.typepad.com/caral_civilization_peru/ http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0103/p11s1-woam.html

With hopes that others find their way to this page, here's a suggested list of sections:

• History A general overview of the trajectory of the society.
• Agriculture and food gathering Mainly seafood. No intense agriculture?
  • add note on Maize.
• Social organization Barter economy? stratification? lack of warfare?
  • add note on first emergence of gov't.
• Architecture
  • The 73 paper should not be only one describing Aspero.
• (lack of?) Art and writing
  • Flutes
  • Shirca-bags
• Impact Relation to Inca. Staff God, Quipu.
• Tweak "archeologists had been aware."
• Add Shady to religion.
• Add Haas quote in research controversies.
• Two large rooms discovered by Haas.
• Add note on size of largest pyramid at Caral.
• Work in Christian S.M.
• Add map showing extent of occupation and influence as with entries on Moche and Chavín civilisations

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jorvikian (talk • contribs) 01:17, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

• Pack the thing off to FAC.

Marskell 13:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

• I'd suggest two maps, actually: one to show the location of the site in Peru, and another one to show the layout of the site(s).--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 19:47, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Archaeology

I changed the spelling of this in line with the name of the journal while fixing some other spelling mistakes, but the original spelling is correct too. No offense. 81.179.249.183 14:20, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I had always thought, without checking, that it was a Brit/Amer English difference, with the less "logical" -aeo being British. Apparently not, so your change is fine. Marskell 14:23, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Caral is the name for the city state. And Caral-Supe for the civilization. they are using this name for more than 13 years. Haas and his wife who didn't work at Caral have 'changed' the name to Norte Chico, to get away with the credits. Read this article and please do it otherwise: Caral-Supe civilization , in principle made famous in the USA under the name of Norte Chico.

http://caralperu.typepad.com/caral_civilization_peru/2005/01/open_letter_fro.html

In all of peru they call teh civilization Caral-Supe, an indigenous name. Norte Chico, the little of the North, it doesn't say anything. Caral-Supe is of Quechua origen and Norte Chico of Spanish!!! better Caral-Supe for the civilization and Caral for a city during this period. Also for respect for the indigenous people and Peru uses it themselves in their new history books. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cholandes (talk • contribs) 11:42, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Primary sources

In order of appearance

SHADY, Ruth

1993 Del Arcaico al Formativo en los Andes Centrales. In: Revista Andina. Centro Bartolomé de las Casas. Cusco.

1995 La Neolitización en Los Andes Centrales y los Orígenes del Sedentarismo, la Domesticación y la Distinción Social. In: Saguntum, Revista del Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, 28, Universidad de Valencia, España.

 Done1997 La Ciudad Sagrada de Caral - Supe en los Albores de la Civilización en el Perú. Fondo Editorial, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 75 p. (http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/Bibvirtual/Libros/Arqueologia/ciudad_sagrada/caratula.htm)

1997 Caral. La Cité Ensevelie, In: Archéologia, N 340, pags. 58-65, France. (http://www.faton.fr/scripts/index_numero.asp?id_titre=2&id_pro=340)

1999 La Ciudad Sagrada de Caral-Supe. Museo de Arqueología y Antropología Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, 14 p.

SHADY, Ruth y Sonia LÓPEZ

1999 Ritual de Enterramiento de un Recinto en el Sector Residencial A en Caral-Supe. In: Boletín de Arqueología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, No.3: 187-212.

SHADY, Ruth

1999 La Religión como una forma de cohesión social y manejo político en los albores de la civilización en el Perú. In: Boletín del Museo de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, año 2, n 9, Lima, pp. 13-15. (http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/Bibvirtual/Publicaciones/antropologia/1999_N09/religion.htm)

1999 Flautas de Caral: El conjunto musical más antiguo de América. In: Boletín del Museo de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, año 2, n 10, Lima, pp. 4-5. (http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/bibvirtualdata/publicaciones/antropologia/1999_n10/a03.pdf)

1999 El Sustento Económico del Surgimiento de la Civilización en el Perú. In: Boletín del Museo de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, año 2, n 11, Lima, pp. 2-4. (http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/bibvirtualdata/publicaciones/antropologia/1999_n11/a02.pdf)

1999 Los Orígenes de la Civilización y la Formación del Estado en el Perú: Las evidencias arqueológicas de Caral-Supe (Primera Parte). In: Boletín del Museo de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, año 2, n 12, Lima, pp. 2-4. (http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/bibvirtualdata/publicaciones/antropologia/1999_n12/a02.pdf)

SHADY, Ruth, Marco MACHACUAY y Rocío ARAMBURÚ

2000 Un Geoglifo de Estilo Sechín en el valle de Supe. In: Boletín del Museo de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, año 3, n 1, Lima, pp. 2-11. (http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/bibvirtualdata/publicaciones/antropologia/2000_n01/a01.pdf)

SHADY, Ruth

2000 Los orígenes de la Civilización y la Formación del Estado en el Perú. Las evidencias arqueológicas de Caral - Supe (Segunda Parte). In: Boletín del Museo de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, año 3, n 2, Lima, pp. 2-7. (http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/Bibvirtual/Publicaciones/antropologia/2000_N02/origenes.htm)

2000 Práctica Mortuoria de la Sociedad de Caral - Supe, durante el Arcaico Tardío. In: Boletín del Museo de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, año 3, N 3, Lima, pp. 2-15. (http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/Bibvirtual/Publicaciones/antropologia/2000_N03/pract_mortuoria.htm)

SHADY, Ruth, Marco MACHACUAY y Sonia LÓPEZ

2000 Recuperando La Historia del Altar del Fuego Sagrado. In: Boletín del Museo de Arqueología y Antropología. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, año 3, N 4 pp 2 - 19. (http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/Bibvirtual/Publicaciones/antropologia/2000_N04/reantropologia.htm)

SHADY, Ruth y Miriam GONZÁLEZ

2000 Una Tumba Circular Profanada de la Ciudad Sagrada de Caral-Supe. In: Boletín del Museo de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, año 3, n5, Lima, pp. 2-9. (http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/bibvirtualdata/publicaciones/antropologia/2000_n05/a01.pdf)

SHADY, Ruth, Marco MACHACUAY y Rocío ARAMBURÚ

2000 La Plaza Circular del Templo Mayor de Caral: Su presencia en Supe y en el área Norcentral del Perú. In: Boletín del Museo de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, año 3, n 8, Lima, pp. 2-25.

SHADY, Ruth

2000 Sustento Socioeconómico del Estado Prístino de Supe Perú: Las evidencias de Caral - Supe. In: Arqueología y Sociedad. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lima, N 13, pp. 49-66.

SHADY, Ruth, Camilo DOLORIER, Fanny MONTESINOS y Lyda CASAS

2000 Los Orígenes de la Civilización en el Perú: el área Norcentral y el valle de Supe durante el Arcaico Tardío. In: Arqueología y Sociedad. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, N 13, pp. 13-48.

SHADY, Ruth, Martha PRADO, Carlos LEYVA, Jorge MORENO, Carlos JIMENEZ y Celso LLIMPE

2000 Las Flautas de Caral-Supe: Aproximaciones al Estudio Acústico-Arqueológico del Conjunto de Flautas más Antiguo de América. In: Boletín del Museo de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, año 3, n 11, Lima, pp. 2-9. (http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/bibvirtualdata/publicaciones/antropologia/2000_n11/a01.pdf)

SHADY, Ruth y Marco MACHACUAY

2000 El Altar del Fuego Sagrado del Templo Mayor de la Ciudad Sagrada de Caral-Supe. In: Boletín del Museo de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, año 3, n 12, Lima, pp. 2-18. (http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/bibvirtualdata/publicaciones/antropologia/2000_n12/a01.pdf)

SHADY, Ruth

2001 Caral-Supe y la Costa Norcentral del Perú: La cuna de la civilización y la formación del estado prístino. In: Historia de la cultura peruana I. Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Perú. Lima, pp. 45-87.

SHADY, Ruth

2001 La Ciudad Sagrada de Caral-Supe y los Orígenes de la Civilización Andina. Museo de Arqueología y Antropología de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, 48 pp.

SHADY, Ruth, Jonathan HAAS y Winifred CREAMER

 Done2001 Dating Caral, a Preceramic Site in the Supe Valley on the Central Coast of Peru. In: SCIENCE, vol 292: 723-726. (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/292/5517/723)

SHADY, Ruth

2001 Caral: La primera ciudad del nuevo mundo. En: Revista Copé, vol. XI - N 28, Lima, pp. 1-6

SHADY, Ruth, Pedro NOVOA y Dolores BUITRÓN

2001 Artefactos simbólicos de Caral-Supe y su importancia en la tradición cultural andina. En Boletín del Museo de Arqueología y Antropología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, año 4, n 4, Lima, pp. 87-94.

SHADY, Ruth

2001 Caral, la Ciudadela más Antigua de América. In: Revista Rumbos, año V, nro. 29, Lima, pp. 72-76.

2002 Caral, Supe: La civilización más antigua de América. En: Revista del Instituto de Investigaciones Histórico Sociales, año VI, nro. 9, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, pp. 51-81.

2002 Caral-Supe La Civilización más antigua del Perú y América. In: Revista Múltiple Cultura Peruana. año 2002, nro. 3, pp. 60-68.

SHADY, Ruth

2003 Caral-Supe, la civilización más antigua de América. Proyecto Especial Arqueológico Caral-Supe, Lima, 42 pp.

SHADY, Ruth y Carlos LEYVA, eds.

2003 La ciudad sagrada de Caral-Supe. Los orígenes de la civilización andina y la formación del Estado prístino en el antiguo Perú. Proyecto Especial Arqueológico Caral-Supe, Lima, 342 pp.

HAAS, Jonathan, Winifred CREAMER, and Alvaro RUIZ

2003 Gourd lord. Archaeology. Volume 56 Number 3, May/June (http://www.archaeology.org/0305/newsbriefs/gourd.html)

SHADY, Ruth

2004 Caral-Supe, Perú: The oldest civilization in the Americas. Proyecto Especial Arqueológico Caral-Supe, Lima, 41 pp.

2004 Caral-Supe, la civilización más antigua de Perú y de América. En: Andean Archaeology III: North and South. William H. Isbell y Helaine Silverman, eds.

2004 The Foundations of Andean Civilization: Papers in Honor of Michael E. Moseley. Joyce Marcus, Charles Stanish and Patrick Ryan Williams, eds. (in press).

HAAS, Jonathan and Winifred CREAMER

2004 Cultural transformations in the Central Andean Late Archaic. Andean Archaeology: Variations in Sociopolitical Organization, Helaine SILVERMAN, ed, p. 35-50.

SHADY, Ruth

2004 Caral La ciudad del fuego sagrado / Caral the city of the sacred fire. Centura Sab. Lima.

HAAS, Jonathan, Winifred CREAMER, Alvaro RUIZ

 Done2005 Power and the Emergence of Complex Polities in the Peruvian Preceramic. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association (Jan 2004), Vol. 14, No. 1: 37-52

SHADY, Ruth

2006 Caral-Supe and the North-Central Area of Peru: The History of Maize in the Land Where Civilization Came into Being. Histories of Maize - Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize. Edited by John Staller, Robert Tykot and Bruce Benz. Academic Press

HAAS, Jonathan and Winifred CREAMER

2006 Crucible of Andean Civilization. Current Anthropology, volume 47, pages 745–775 (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/resolve?id=doi:10.1086/506281)

Secondary sources

In order of appearance

BEGLEY, Sharon

2001 New World Pyramids. Newsweek. May 7, 2001: 60-61.

2001 Pirámides de América. Newsweek en español. 9 de mayo del 2001: 42-43.

VÉLEZ A., Judith

2001 La ciudad más antigua de América, el fuego eterno de Caral. Cosas. Agosto-Setiembre 2001: 36-39.

CACHAY, Raúl

2001 Caral 3000 a. C. Somos. Año XIV Nº 753: 20-24.

SHADY, Ruth

2001 Caral, la ciudadela más antigua de América / Caral, the oldest citadel in the Americas. Rumbos. Año V, Nº 29: 72-76

SHADY, Ruth

2001 Caral: la primera ciudad del nuevo mundo. Copé. Setiembre 2001. Volumen XI, Nº 28: 1-6.

BÖKEMEIER, Rolf

2001 Amerikas äteste Stadt entdeckt! (with photographs by George Steinmetz). Geo. 12 dezember 2001: 98-118 (http://www.geo.de/GEO/kultur/geschichte/773.html)

MARTINDALE, Diane

2002 Pre-Pre-Pre Columbian. Discover, January 2002, vol. 23, no. 1: 64 (http://discovermagazine.com/2002/jan/archaeology)

VÉLEZ A., Judith

2002 Caral. Tras las huellas de la ciudad más antigua de América. Cosas. 11 enero 2002: 112-115.

ROSS, John F.

2002 First city in the new world? Smithsonian, August 2002, Volume 33, Number 5: 56-64 (http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2002/august/firstcity.php#related)

BLAKE, Melissa

2005 Professor disturbed by plagiarism allegations. Winifred Creamer helped discover site on Peru's coast. NortherhStar Online. Monday, February 14, 2005. (http://www.northernstar.info/articles/?id=5343)

MANN, Charles

 Done 2005 Unraveling Khipu's Secrets. Science 12 August 2005: 1008-1009

ATWOOD, Roger

 Done 2005 A Monumental Feud. Archaeology. Volume 58 Number 4, July/August 2005

MILLER, Kenneth

2005 Showdown at the O.K. Caral. Discover. 9.9.2005

Press kits

2001 The America's oldest Pyramids, Cities http://www.niu.edu/pubaffairs/presskits/wcjo/index.html

2001 Anthropologists Establish Date and Importance of the Americas’ Oldest City (http://www.fieldmuseum.org/museum_info/press/press_hass.htm)

2003 The god on the gourd (http://www.niu.edu/PubAffairs/presskits/gourdgod1/index.html)

2004 Exploring the America's earliest known civilization http://www.niu.edu/pubaffairs/presskits/peru/index.html

2004 New dates confirm beginnings of civilization in South America (http://www.fieldmuseum.org/museum_info/press/press_nortechico.htm)

Archaeological projects

Proyecto Especial Arqueológico Caral - Supe (Español: http://www.caralperu.gob.pe/principal.htm - English: http://www.caralperu.gob.pe/principal_ing.htm - Deutsch: http://www.caralperu.gob.pe/principal_deu.htm)

Proyecto Arqueológico Norte Chico (http://www.fieldmuseum.org/panc/)

Media

2001, "Ancient Cities in the Americas." Jonathan Haas – The Macarthur Curator of anthropology at the Field Museum. Winifred Creamer – Associate professor of anthropology at Northern Illinois University. Brian Bauer – Associate professor of archeology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (See May 8, 2001) (http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/od_ramay01.asp)

2002, The lost Pyramids of Caral. BBC, directed by Martin Taylor. Winifred Creamer. Ken Feder. Jonathan Haas. C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky. Tom Pozorski. Ruth Shady (http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/caraltrans.shtml)

"Pack the thing off to FAC", Michael Moseley, 2005 "The MFAC, an evolving hypothesis". Online in: The hall of Ma'at

Valdivia

To Hanson. As I see it:

• Literally nothing on Google scholar calls Valdivia a civilization.[1]
• We have sources that unequivocally call Norte Chico the oldest.
• Even if we accept them both as civs, their dates overlap. Marskell 08:10, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

How is it possible that this is still in the page. Valdivia was not a civilization, and most scholarly sources you can find call Norte Chico the oldest civilization in the Americas. Dates overlapping is irrelevant, we are not just talking about dates, but also about attributes that make something a civilization instead of a culture. Additionally, this article is extending a courtesy the article on the Valdivia Culture does not extend. There is no mention of Norte Chico on that page. If you'll pardon the vulgar expression, it seems more like a pissing match than an attempt to be accurate. Rafajs77 (talk) 07:08, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, I wouldn't say that there's some definite, bright line separating a culture from a civilization. But I agree that the sources don't really support a comparison in the lead. Marskell (talk) 19:44, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Coastal but arid

Interestingly, Norte Chico Region is arid; however, it is surrounded by river valleys and the development of widespread irrigation from these water sources is seen as the reason for the emergence of the civilization.

I think there should be a little inclusion on the subject of littoral (e.g. it's in the coastal region, but why is it arid?)

The page states:

"The Peruvian littoral appears an "improbable, even aberrant" candidate for the "pristine" development of civilization, compared to other world centers. It is extremely arid, bounded by two rain shadows (caused by the Andes to the east, and the Pacific trade winds to the west). The region, however, is punctuated by more than 50 rivers that carry Andean snowmelt, and the development of widespread irrigation from these water sources is seen as decisive in the emergence of Norte Chico."

So I think we're OK. Marskell 08:09, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

The Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization: An Evolving Hypothesis, by Michael E. Moseley

http://thehallofmaat.com/modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=85 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.230.23.138 (talk) 01:23, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Google Earth Maps shows China for Caral site?

Looks like the wrong number is entered.Dale662 (talk) 17:25, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Fixed, I think. Somebody check that that's the right location.

—WWoods (talk) 01:56, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Category:Indigenous peoples of South America

What abaout removing it?--Ssola (talk) 15:50, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Illustrations?

What has happened to its illustrations? There are some on Commons so why not show the "monumental architecture referred to in the text, within the article?

• 
  "A good picture's worth a thousand words"
• 
  Gives an idea of the size and shape of the hewn stones
• 
  Monumental building. It's talked about but not shown.
• 
  So here's a little picture of bag full of river stones. Just as described in the article. Why isn't the pic there too?

With a picture as stunning as this, wt? wouldn't it be used in the article?

Amandajm (talk) 02:09, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

I was going to comment on the lack of illustrative material in this article. Interesting, but coul do with more pictures...--MacRusgail (talk) 17:40, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

I agree - more of these should be used to give idea of scale of this civilization and how it was built.Parkwells (talk) 13:57, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Littoral

Para 3 of the 'History and geography' section refers to the "Peruvian littoral'. A search on 'littoral' redirects to 'Littoral zone', which means the part of a sea, lake or river which is close to the shore. What does it mean in this context? Dudley Miles 16:45, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

• Like "nearshore", "littoral" can refer to the part of the sea close to the land, and also to the part of the land close to the sea. Confusing, isn't it? --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 19:50, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

The article on Littoral zone makes clear that it has a number of different meanings. Personally, I think such a ambiguous word is better not used. Dudley Miles 22:58, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Map, badly needed

This article badly needs a map, showing the region that NC occupied. If possible, major settlements should be shown. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 18:35, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Erroneous Dating

The initial date for the Norte Chico civilization given is in error. 9210 BCE is the date for the first evidence of human habitation of the area. The earliest cities are dated to c. 3500 BCE. Please see: Haas, Jonathan, Winifred Creamer, and Alvaro Ruiz 2004 Dating the Late Archaic occupation of the Norte Chico region in Peru. Nature 4321020-1023.96.50.6.253 (talk) 22:26, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

It gets better, "it's the oldest civilization in America", but the Casma-Sechin culture (just 200 kilometers away) build earlier, larger and more complex and impressive settlements; lasted longer (it had a better and more complex organization) and no one talks about them! When I was there and asked the Peruvian archeologists their answer left me dumbfounded: the Casma-Sechin has, yet, no been discovered by the North American archeologists, so there are no publicity. And being farther away from Lima, it's better for the government to promote Caral (a day excursion from Lima) than the farther away Casma Valley. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.34.28.191 (talk) 20:47, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Bandurria

Under the economic section...

"...there are only two confirmed shore sites in the Norte Chico (Aspero and Bandurria) and possibly two more, but cotton fishing nets and domesticated plants have been found up and down the Peruvian coast."

I clicked on Bandurria and came to an article on a musical instrument. I hope somebody can take care of that. I have no idea what it's supposed to be. Thanks.

~~NotWillRiker — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.9.112.31 (talk) 03:32, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Remove pic of whale vertebrae

There is no content in the article or source to justify suggestion that caralinos were deep-sea fishermen who harvested whales. Have removed this pic:

The caralinos developed deep sea fishing. Vertebrae of blue whale used as seats

There are others directly related to construction and sites that are more important to use.Parkwells (talk) 14:26, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Reason for location in arid coast of Peru

24.50.151.151 (talk) 14:16, 7 January 2015 (UTC) http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-04482-7_17 One imagines that one could find the earliest civilization in the world by locating upwellings.

An issue with the title of the english version of this article

"Norte Chico" IS NOT the name of this Civilization. Norte Chico ("Small North") is the colloquial term that we peruvians use to name the mid-north area of the peruvian coast, and it's a extremely vague word. There's not a single peruvian historian that use "Norte Chico" to refer to this civilization. Plus, it's even insulting that you're just ignoring the way we locals call this culture. PLEASE, correct this error, "Norte Chico" is not a academic nor serious geographical category. The proper name is Caral Civilization. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.236.255.110 (talk) 23:04, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Population of settlements

It would be useful if there was some information about the size of these settlements, population wise. Even if archaeologists have widely varying estimates, putting that in would be better than nothing. Were they places of 1,000 people, 10,000, or what? LastDodo (talk) 11:55, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

Compact list of civilisations?

The article and others linking to it paint a very black and white picture of Norte Chico being one of six ‘original’ civilisations. Granted there is no universal agreement on a cutoff between other advanced cultures and civilisations, and as far as broader zones of civilisation are concerned, the oldest massive jump representing the Andean-Peruvian coastal region should get a serious mention, but why is eg Danubian cultures not included? This list of six is hardly a scholarly consensus and the subjectivity involved should at least be emphasised.

Otherwise, what black and white criteria include Norte Chico but not eg Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, which had an even more probable form of proto-writing, proto-currency, visual arts galore, apparently larger settlements by population, ceramics, etc., technologies that Norte Chico lacked? They also had large-scale architecture, though admittedly their largest known temple is puny in comparison. Is it then the scale of monumental architecture that is taken as defining? Should this be clarified? Harsimaja (talk) 08:02, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Caral Civilization

The legal name is Caral Civilization stated by the Peruvian Government (Ministry of Culture). Moreover, the most common name is Caral Civilization because it's used in any translated materials for tourists who came to Peru. Moreover, Ruth Shady who is the founder and director of the archaeological project at Caral, named Caral Civilization.
What is more, here there are many section referring to this topic:
Talk:Norte_Chico_civilization#Archaeology
Talk:Norte_Chico_civilization#An_issue_with_the_title_of_the_english_version_of_this_article
No one has pointed out any argument in opposition to those points even though that past long time. According to Wikipedia:Consensus#In_talk_pages: Consensus can be assumed if no editors object to a change. So, that situation afforded to do the changes following the Wikipedia rules.Jjrt (talk) 07:00, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

FA sweeps

Tagged as needing update for recent research. The article should be expanded with this research. Eg [2][3] looks to contain a lot of information about political structure that is not covered in the article. (t · c) buidhe 01:37, 21 December 2021 (UTC)