First time tour

The first time tour (first-time tour or first time-tour?)

In the collaborative pages of Casa Peruana: Educación there is no prescribed method (pedagogical device!) for studying a particular topic. For example in the topic "the Dawn of Urbanisation" you will find embedded videos, assignments, articles, references to books, cut-out jigsaws (for the kids),. . . and, as on this page, "time-tours", by visiting four or five archaeological sites in historical or chronological sequence we can get a basic grasp of
 * 1) How humans in what is now Peru first crossed the divide - from simple nomadic ways of life and into more complex societies: beginning the construction of towns and cities. They were amongst the first peoples to achieve this without (1) the use of ceramics (no potties for the posh and no hot-pots for the workers!), without (2) writing as we know it and without (3) 'orses and carts. We are at about 3000 BC.
 * 2) How developments in irrigation, metallurgy, textiles, ceramics and stonemasonry framed an era in which monumental U-shaped pyramid complexes dominated irrigated desert valleys supporting elite chieftain-priesthoods. We are passing the 1000 BC "marker".
 * 3) Why the transition period 200 BC to 200 seemed to free up creative talent and led up to the great flowering of technology and the arts under the Moche, Lima and Nasca cultures.
 * 4) Why the period 200 to approximately 600 could be considered "golden" and "classical" periods for the three coastal areas:  Moche (north) and Nazca (south) and - more controversially - the in-between central coastal area (Lima culture)

You can take Casa Peruana's "time tours" across Peru from the comfort of your own armchair or by walking, cycling, taking buses or otherwise travelling across Peru. The first tour starts around 5500 years ago and ends around 500 years into this era (AD). At the beginning of this period humans were starting to live in towns, to build monumental religious sites, to specialise in trade and to form hierarchical societies. ''Please consult assignment 1. You can gain "ayni" and "chumpi" points for yourself or your R&S (research and study) team by improving this article / these pages. Useful task! Why not add some SATNAV information to this map and some satellite or streetview images? Hint: use Google Maps.''

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