The circular structure at the ruins of Sechin Bajo is about 5,500 years old, archaeologists report.
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(I'm thinking the dimensions are an American typo, confusing feet and meters.)Plaza in Peru may be the America's oldest urban site
Mar 04, 2008
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"Upon further review" maybe this plaza was fairly small, guessing the radius by looking at the photo...
"Michael Bulatovich" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news5.newsguy.com:
Interesting!
Not surprising, since the writer didn't even know that the plural of millenium is 'millenia', not 'milleniums' =:-/
((And then we wonder why the rest of the world thinks we're all idiots...))
"Michael Bulatovich" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news5.newsguy.com:
I wondered about tha, but it's impossible to say without further info/photos, because the photographer might have been focusing upon the interesting detail, rather than upon the overall area. Maybe a search will uncover some additional photos/info, hang on, here we go:
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So it seems, from a cursory glance at least, that the article's author did, in fact, screw up in using "feet" as the unit of measure.
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