article_snippet: Although the practice began 2,000 years before the Ancient Egptians began mummifying the Chinchorro people own dead, the techniques used by Chinchorro were often surprisingly sophisticated.
article_snippet: the Chinchorro people would often take the most care when preserving the remains of dead children and babies - suggesting the act had a deep significance with linking the living to the dead.
article_snippet: However, the practice of preserving the dead with mummification became popular among the Chinchoro around 5,000 BC, with children and babies often being the most elaborately preserved.
article_snippet: Chinchorro were a prehistoric people who lived in scattered communities and used fishing to help a prehistoric people who lived in scattered communities and used fishing to help them survive on the desert coast of Chile and Peru survive on the desert coast of Chile and Peru.
article_snippet: Chinchorro is thought a prehistoric people who lived in scattered communities and used fishing to help them survive on the desert coast of Chile and Peru began preserving a prehistoric people who lived in scattered communities and used fishing to help them survive on the desert coast of Chile and Peru dead though mummification as part of a religious act designed to bridge the world between the living and the dead.