The origin of Andean Culture: The migrations

In order to better understand the ruins left behind by the ancient Peruvian civilizations on the north coast of Peru, it is necessary to explain a little bit about the origins of the Andean culture in the world. Within this historical ambience, the German scientist Max Uhle maintained that the cradle of Peruvian civilization was not local, but rather the result of a series of massive migrations by people who were running away from the Aztec and Maya Empires, searching for a place where they could better develop themselves.

Within these archeological studies, Hule sustained that the most ancient Peruvian cultures had to have been found on the coast due to the ease of arrival from Central America to South America by boat. Therefore, the best places to disembark in Peru belonged to the cultures of the Mochica and Nazca.

Uhle found that a lot of words from the Moche (from the Mohica culture) language that gave their names to cities such as Cajamarca and Lambayeque, had a certain similarity with Mayan words, citing as an example the existence of a small town near the current Cajamarca whose name is Ichoacán, which has a similarity with Michoacán, in México.

The myth
Furthermore, the main point of his theory is based on the existence of a legend that narrates the arrival to Mohican lands of a foreign prince named Naylamp. He took the rural fishermen of the Mochica and Chimú cultures (both from the north of Peru) and converted them into advanced civilizations.

Their importance

Max Uhle was the first scientist who outlined a theory that explained and linked up the lost years of Peruvian history and the great development that occurred afterwards, furthermore, putting in evidence, the enormous similarity found between Mayan ceramics and the ceramics of Nazca, deeply imbued with religious character and social decorations.

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