Anthropologist Mike Moseley of the University of Florida reports that the Supe Valley Culture in Peru died out 3600 years ago due to a series of earthquakes and floods. It was a "maritime farming community that had been successful for over 2000 years". The coastal society in Peru was established 5800 years ago but came to ruin due to a "massive earthquake, or series of quakes...that caused floods and landslides" that washed away their homes and destroyed their food supply. "Then came El Nino, a periodic change in the winds and currents in the Pacific". It was noted that the Supe culture "built stone pyramids thousands of years before the better-known Mayans". Moseley's info was reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
(Source: "Quakes, weather drove people out, researchers say" by the AP. Reported in The Virginian Pilot on January 25, 2009).
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