"Carbon dating by a German and Peruvian excavation team indicates that the circular plaza is at least 5,500 years old, dating to about 3,500 BC, said Cesar Perez, an archaeologist at Peru's National Institute of Culture who supervised the dig.
"That would make it older than the Great Pyramid of Giza."
Patrick J. McDonnell in the Los Angeles Times reports the discovery of the ruins of Peru's Sechin Bajo, "the oldest known urban settlement in the Americas."
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