Aspero is a well-studied site of the ancient Norte Chico civilization, located at the mouth of the Supe river on the north-central Peruvian coast. Monumental architecture, including large platform mounds have been discovered at the site; their significance was first determined in 1973, though research had occured since the 1940s. The diet of Aspero is believed to have been primarily maritime. Research at the site led to the controversial "maritime foundations of Andean culture" theory, which suggests that the initial development of ancient Peruvian culture was based on seafood, rather than agriculture.[1] The idea is widely disputed.[2] The Norte Chico civilization was a complex Pre-Columbian society that included as many as 30 major population centers in what is now the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru. ... A Platform Mound is any earthwork intended to support a structure or activity. ... Spaghetti with seafood (Spaghetti allo scoglio). ...
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^ Moseley, Edward; Gordon R. Willey (1973). "Aspero, Peru: A Reexamination of the Site and Its Implications". American Antiquity38 (4): 452-468. Retrieved on 2007-02-01. "We see the site as a 'peaking' of an essentially non-agricultural economy. Subsistence was still, basically, from the sea. But such subsistence supported a sedantry style of life, with communities of appreciable size."
^Mann, Charles C. [2005] (2006). 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Vintage Books, 199-212. ISBN 1-4000-3205-9.
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