After celebrating the New Year, a family found remains of a pre-Hispanic mummy in the Arenillas Negras spaon the Region of Arica and Parinacota.
In the middle of a family walk, the physical education teacher César Castro He approached the Arenillas Negras Beach parking lot in order to take his vehicle, when he noticed a kind of dark rock on the ground that was different from the rest: apparent hairs and accessories sprouted from her.
Looking closely, “I realized that they were remains of a mummybecause inside the pile of hair in the piece, there was a piece of the skull attached to some braids,” he said. Cesar Castro a Cooperative Regions.
“The skull was broken and further down (in the sand) I found a lot of brown cloth. I brought it closer to the place of the mummy and covered them with sand,” he explained.
“ARICAN CULTURE, 1200 AD”
After making his discovery public through social networks, the teacher was contacted by officials of the National Monuments Councilwho approached the site of the event to initiate the protocol corresponding to this type of findings.
“We proceeded to recover textile pieces, fragments of a human skull and bones of a forearm. sayings remains would belong to the so-called Arica Culturewhich has a date of antiquity of 1,200 years AD.”, explained the deputy regional director of the Cultural Heritage Service in the Arica Region, Claudia Flores.
The members of said group “were part of a local population that developed along the Arica coast, specifically in the southern sector of the (current) city,” the official explained.
WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDINGS?
Regarding this case, the Investigative Brigade of Crimes Against the Environment de la PDI He called on citizens to denounce or give notice of any type of archaeological finding, since new discoveries of remains from the pre-Hispanic era are possible.
“The call to citizenship is to do not excavate in these places (spas in the southern sector), because obviously they are going to find archaeological pieces. In the event that they go out into the open, the public must be informed PDI, Carabineros or the Council of National Monuments”pointed out the commissioner Cristian Gálvez, deputy head of Bidema Arica.
“If these species are removed from the place by unauthorized personnel, a crime of appropriation of national monument“The officer warned.
