- The
Chinchorro mummies are
mummified remains of
individuals from the
South American Chinchorro culture,
found in what is now
northern Chile. They are the...
- The
Chinchorro culture of
South America was a
preceramic culture that
lasted from 9,100 to 3,500
years BP (7,000 to 1,500 BCE). The
people forming the...
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Banco Chinchorro is an
atoll reef
lying off the
southeast coast of the Muni****lity of Othón P.
Blanco in
Quintana Roo, Mexico, near Belize. It was featured...
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advanced pre-Columbian
societies found in Chile.[citation needed] The
Chinchorro culture developed in the
Atacama Desert area from 7000 BCE to 1500 BCE...
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belong to this
ethnic group. The
culture originated in the 8,000-year-old
Chinchorro tradition. Due to a
combination of
conquest and
integration into other...
- discovery, the
oldest known deliberate mummy was a child, one of the
Chinchorro mummies found in the
Camarones Valley, Chile,
which dates around 5050...
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human settlement in this region. The
Chinchorro are
famous for
their detailed mummification practice (
Chinchorro mummies). The
culture lasted for several...
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within eight protected natural areas that
include the
reefs of
Banco Chinchorro, and
Xcalak at
South of
Quintana Roo, Sian Kaʼan
Biosphere Reserve, Cancun...
-
Valley of the Kings. However, the
Chinchorro mummies of
Chile are to date the
oldest mummies on Earth. The
Chinchorro mummification process included the...
- Sanz, Nuria; Arriaza,
Bernardo T.; Standen,
Vivien G., eds. (2015). The
Chinchorro culture: a
comparative perspective, the
archaeology of the
earliest human...
