The journal Nature interviewed University of Maine anthropologist Dan Sandweiss for an article about possible explanations for why hunter-gatherers in Chinchorro communities in northern Chile and southern Peru mummified their dead 7,000 years ago, long before the Egyptians. Sandweiss, who also is dean and assistant provost of UMaine graduate studies, said a lack of evidence
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