🏛️ Settlement and Artificial Mummification of the Chinchorro Culture in the Arica and Parinacota Region

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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 Chile and southern Peru. The oldest known naturally preserved Chinchorro individual dates to about 7020 BCE, while deliberate mummification began by about 5050 BCE, making the Chinchorro mummies the oldest known examples of purposefully preserved human bodies in the world.

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Settlement and Artificial Mummification of the Chinchorro Culture in the Arica and Parinacota Region is a cultural World Heritage site in Chile, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Settlement and Artificial Mummification of the Chinchorro Culture in the Arica and Parinacota Region was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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