Chinchorro mummies
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The Chinchorro mummies are naturally and artificially preserved human remains associated with the Chinchorro culture, an Indigenous people who lived along the Pacific coast of what is now northern Chi
Chinchorro mummies of the type site in Arica, Chile
Head of a Chinchorro mummy found in northern Chile
Chinchorro mummies displayed at the Museo Arqueológico San Miguel de Azapa, near Arica, Chile
Chinchorro mummy from northern Peru
Chinchorro culture
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The Chinchorro culture of South America was a preceramic culture that lasted from 9,100 to 3,500 years BP. The people forming the Chinchorro culture were sedentary fishermen inhabiting the Pacific coa
Chinchorro mummies
…The Chinchorro mummies are naturally and artificially preserved human remains associated with the Chinchorro culture, an Indigenous people who lived along the Pacific coast of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru. The oldest known naturally preserved Chinchorro…
Landscape of Arica, Chile
Chinchorro funeral rites of the later period (1000-500 BC)
Artistic representation