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Why the South American Chinchorro People Made the First Mummies

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Seven thousand years ago, people of the Chinchorro culture in modern-day Chile and Peru made the world’s first mummies. Why adopt such complex mortuary rituals? A new study attributes the practice to a shift in the climate.

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