Chile’s archaeologists fight to save the world’s oldest mummies from climate change
by Laurence Blair in Arica from Science | The Guardian on (#5XHE9)
The desert graveyard where the ancient Chinchorro decorated and buried their dead is now a Unesco World Heritage site
Jannina Campos walks up a sandy hillside in Arica, a port city on the edge of the Atacama desert, the driest place on the planet.
The slope is dotted with dozens of orange markers placed in December. Each indicates skeletal remains recently uncovered by unusually strong winds and increased rainfall.
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