Hoary plaza discovered in Peru by Lenka Filipova

An ancient ceremonial plaza was found in the north central coast in Peru. It is probably the oldest monument that has ever been discovered in Peru. The plaza's age is 5,500 years. The discovery was unearth by the German and Peruvian archaeologists.The leader of the trench team, a German archaeologist Peter Fuchs, told that materials from the ceremonial plaza were analyzed by carbon dating method, which brought the results that it was built between 3500 B. C. and 3000 B. C. Another archaeologist of great importance to Peru's National Culture Institute, Ruth Shady, expressed his opinion that the finding actually gives evidence of the civilization that was flourishing in Peru at the same time as in the areas of today's the Middle East and South Asia. Ruth Shady, the excellent and well-known Peruvian archaeologist, managed the excavation team in 2001. In that year they together succeeded in discovering the ancient city of Caral which has been the oldest known city dating back to 2627 B. C. until this discovery.The sunken plaza has got circular shape and it is built of stones. It belongs to Sechin Bajo archaeological complex in Andes flanks. The plaza was used for social gathering where people performed their rituals to celebrate their ideas about themselves and the world.The finders also discovered near-by the plaza a six feet tall frieze, which is approximately 3,600 year old, figuring the image of human sacrificer, who has his arms opened, holding a human head in one hand and the knife in the other one, as it was described by Fuchs.

by Lenka Filipova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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