findChinchorro Mo-1 T28 C22
A dotted line above the upper lip, about 1880 BCE
about 1,980 BCE – 1,780 BCE · 1880 ± 100 BCE
What it is
A mummified man from the Chilean coast with a dotted line tattooed above his upper lip — the oldest tattoo yet found in the Americas.
The long version
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.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Chinchorro mummies — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Chinchorro mummies — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there