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7,000-year-old Chinchorro mummies turned grief into art

The Chinchorro people of the Pacific coast turned the raw pain of loss into something enduring and visible, reshaping the ...
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Ancient Art Therapy? Chinchorro Mummification as Emotional Healing

The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...
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7,000-Year-Old Atacama Mummies May Have Been Created As "Art Therapy"

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...
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7,000-year-old Chinchorro mummies represent a culture that turned grief into art

Whenever death struck this ancient community, the Chinchorro engaged in an act of grieving that essentially became art. According to a recent study in Cambridge University Press, ...