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Chinchorro (Caleta Camarones)

Stretch of the Atacama coast in northern Chile where the Chinchorro fisher-people made the oldest artificial mummies known anywhere - two thousand years before Egypt. The dead were taken apart, reinforced with sticks and clay and given a modelled face, and the treatment was given to everyone: children, adults, the stillborn.

Dated events and their evidence

• 5,050 BCE mainstream
  earliest known artificial mummification, a child at Camarones source
• 1,500 BCE mainstream
  Chinchorro culture ends source
• 2021 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a World Heritage site source

Where

19.1922° S, 70.2628° W

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.2307/971599
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinchorro_mummies
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinchorro_culture

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