Ruth Shady
Ruth Martha Shady Solís (born December 29, 1946 in Callao , Peru ) is a Peruvian anthropologist and American scholar . She is the initiator and leader of the excavation project Caral , one of the oldest city-like settlements on the American continent, located in Peru, about 200 km north of Lima . The age of Caral and its culture has been dated to 4600 years using the radiocarbon method .
Works
- Caral - La Ciudad del Fuego Sagrado / The City of the Sacred Fire. Interbank 2004 ( Spanish / English )
Web links
- Caral archaeological site (Peru)
- Open Letter from Ruth Shady (Lima, January 5, 2005; re: Caral Civilization Peru. The origins of civilization in Peru.)
- Caral: Oldest City in the New World. A conversation with Dr. Ruth Shady
- Ruth Shady on how to have world peace (September 14, 2009)
- Ruth Shady in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Written in knotted script. Identity from the past. In: taz.de, January 7, 2009
- Font. The magical medium. In: DIE ZEIT, June 19, 2008, No. 26
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ruth Shady Solís, Jonathan Haas and Winifred Creamer: Dating Caral, a Preceramic Site in the Supe Valley on the Central Coast of Peru. In: Science , April 27, 2001: Vol. 292, no. 5517, pp. 723-726, accessed January 6, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shady, Ruth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shady Solís, Ruth Martha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Peruvian anthropologist and archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Callao , Peru |