found to be painted with red ocher while the heads were painted with black manganese. Tattooing At least one Chinchorro mummy bears remarkable witness to the antiquity of tattooing in the region. The remains of a male with a mustache-like dotted line tattooed above his upper lip and dating to 1880 +/- 100 BCE (2563–1972 cal BCE) is believed to represent the oldest direct evidence of tattooing in the Americas and the fourth-oldest such evidence in the world. See also Burial ritual Cultural periods of Peru Mummy Mummy Juanita References Bibliography Arthur C. Aufderheide, The Scientific Study of Mummies. Cambridge University Press, 2003 p. 142 Bernardo Arriaza, Chile’s Chinchorro Mummies nationalgeographic.com 1995 External links Chinchorro Archaeological site in Chile "Making the Dead Beautiful: Mummies as Art" Archaeology Magazine Chinchorro and other mummies Cultura Chinchorro Momias Chinchorro "Mummies in Peru" American Museum of Natural History site "Living with the world's oldest mummies" BBC News Article Andean mummies Human remains (archaeological) History of South America Archaeology of Chile Archaeology of Peru Indigenous culture of the Andes Andean preceramic World Heritage Sites in Chile