{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "chinchorro-man",
 "type": "find",
 "names": {
  "name": "Chinchorro Mo-1 T28 C22",
  "said": "A dotted line above the upper lip, about 1880 BCE"
 },
 "region": [
  "the-americas"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "era": "prehistory"
 },
 "when": {
  "from": -1980,
  "to": -1780,
  "circa": true,
  "label": "1880 ± 100 BCE"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "A mummified man from the Chilean coast with a dotted line tattooed above his upper lip — the oldest tattoo yet found in the Americas.",
  "story": "The Chinchorro were mummifying their dead by about 5050 BCE, across the whole community rather than for an elite. One of the bodies carries the marks."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ร่างมัมมี่จากชายฝั่งชิลี มีรอยสักเป็นจุดเรียงเหนือริมฝีปากบน เก่าที่สุดเท่าที่พบในทวีปอเมริกา"
 },
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-chinchorro-mummies"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-chinchorro-mummies"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "archaeology"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}