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Early procurement of scarlet macaws and the emergence of social complexity in Chaco Canyon, NM

Adam S. Watson, Stephen Plog, Brendan J. Culleton et al., 2015. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(27): 8238-8243.

High-precision AMS radiocarbon dates on scarlet macaw skeletons from Pueblo Bonito show the birds were brought from Mesoamerica from about AD 900 to 975 onward and persistently to 1150, mostly before the 1040 to 1110 building peak to which they are usually attributed.

MYS0D9KTB707Q8J · mystery · click to copyMGreat houses of Chaco CanyonArticleCopy of Scarlet macaw skeletal remains from Pueblo Bonitodoi: 10.1073/pnas.1509825112Checked against the original0

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The macaw chronology and its bearing on early hierarchy.

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Watson, A. S., Plog, S., Culleton, B. J., Gilman, P. A., LeBlanc, S. A., Whiteley, P. M., Claramunt, S., & Kennett, D. J. (2015). Early procurement of scarlet macaws and the emergence of social complexity in Chaco Canyon, NM. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(27): 8238-8243. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509825112
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