When Grief Became Craft on the Edge of the Atacama How Chinchorro mummification turned loss into labor, memory, and care

Long before pyramids, Chinchorro communities rebuilt their dead by hand. New research suggests early mummification began as a response to grief, especially infant loss, turning care and art into survival. #Archaeology #Anthropology #MortuaryRitual #HumanEvolution www.anthropology.net/p/when-grief...

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Complex #MortuaryRitual or response to #colonial #GraveLooting? - #Peru's #Indigenous #Chincha apparently 're-assembled' previously buried bodies.

A reaction to 16th century European #colonisers #looting and #disturbing those...