Found eight momias of 4500 years
Eight momias of the culture Small boat, perhaps the oldest inhabitants of America, were found by workers who realised restoration works the Nose of Arica, to 2 thousand 51 kilometers the north of Santiago. The momificados bodies of the primitive culture dedicated to the fishing and the hunting, were in perfect state of conservation and would be approximately 4 thousand 500 years old.
“These momias have an approximated rank of antiquity between 2 thousands and 5 thousand years before Christ”, Mercury needed the archaeologist Calógero Santoro to the newspaper.
The Small boat was one of the first towns in practicing mummification. The perfect conditions in which is momias or part of their bodies, reveal the good handling that they had of the technique of momificar. Of eight found bodies, three they were in the land, whereas the other five were transferred to facilities of the Chilean University of Tarapacá, where they are momias open pies in previous years. One of the bones will not be removed from the place of its discovery, because it is tried to make a mausoleum of glass so that it can be observed by those who frequents the zone.
This it is not the unique finding in the sector of the Nose of Arica, the first discovery was in 1983, where they were in the open several hundreds of momias, that at first thought that they corresponded to cemeteries of pre-Columbian cultures, nevertheless after being put to the test was verified that some were 7,000 years old. In year 2005 50 were discovered momias Small boat, of 6,000 years, that were found by archaeologists of the University of Tarapacá during the demolition of a house.
Generally, the discovery of momias or parts of them has been in the sector of the Nose of Arica, which demonstrates the existence than it could have been an ancient cemetery of the culture Small boat, that, is presumed, Cristina was extinguished or emigrated in the first centuries of the era. Momias found in the North zone of Chile is previous to those of Egypt, becoming thus oldest found the world. Therefore, the National Monument Council of the region of Arica and Parinacota try that Archaeological Patrimony of the Humanity is declared to him.
Source: universal.com
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