Climate Change May Have Led to Earliest South American Mummies
posted on October 26th, 2012 in Archaeology, Chile, Peru, Peruvian Mummies
A 7,000-year-old mummy from the Chinchorro culture, along the border of Chile and Peru, whose skin, hair and clothing still remain (photos: National Geographic)
Changing Climate May Have Led To Earliest Mummies
NPR
August 15, 2012
A couple of thousand years before the Egyptians preserved some of their dead, a much simpler society made the first known mummies.