to take an active role in their changing world. but the atacamenos weren't the first indigenous people to call chile home. i left rosa and headed further up the coast to arica. between 7000 and 1500 bc, the hunter gatherer chinchorro people lived here and developed complex mummification practices which have astounded 21st—century researchers. last year, chinchorro burial culture was officially recognised by unesco, who placed it on their world heritage list. but despite this, the chinchorro still haven't entirely caught the public�*s imagination. the small fishing village of caleta camarones is the closest town to one of the world's top sites where the chinchorro mummies have been found.

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