"The Oldest Mummies in the World: Chinchorro" will be the topic of a March 8 University Forum lecture at UNLV.

In this slide-illustrated lecture, Bernardo Arriaza, associate professor of anthropology at UNLV, will provide a brief history of the 7,000-year-old Chinchorro mummies and discuss how researchers' perceptions of the Andean mummification practice have changed over the last century.

The lecture will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History. All University Forum lectures are free and open to the public. No reservations are required.

The University Forum lecture series is sponsored by UNLV's College of Liberal Arts and is underwritten by the Jerry Kalafatis Lodge Charitable Foundation and the UNLV Foundation.