The oldest known civilization of the Americas — monumental pyramid-cities on Peru's coastal river valleys, contemporaries of the Egyptian pyramids.
The Supe-valley centres were largely abandoned by ~1800 BC as the focus of coastal society shifted; their mound-and-plaza template echoed in Andean cultures for millennia.
Opens with the Norte Chico / Caral-Supe pyramid-cities as the oldest American civilization.
A survey of ancient South America that sets the Supe-valley centres in Andean prehistory.