Scarlet macaw (<i>Ara macao</i>) breeding at the Mimbres archaeological site of Old Town (early AD 1100s) in Southwestern New Mexico-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) breeding at the Mimbres archaeological site of Old Town (early AD 1100s) in Southwestern New Mexico

Published:2023-05-31 Issue:6 Volume:2 Page:
ISSN:2752-6542
Container-title:PNAS Nexus
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Author:

Conrad Cyler¹²^ORCID,Wurth Kimberly³,Tenner Travis³^ORCID,Naes Benjamin³,LeBlanc Steven A⁴,Creel Darrell⁵,Williams Katharine²,Beacham E Bradley⁶

Affiliation:

1. Environmental Protection and Compliance Division, Environmental Stewardship Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos, NM 87545 , USA

2. Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico , Albuquerque, NM 87131 , USA

3. Chemistry Division, Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos, NM 87545 , USA

4. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University , Cambridge, MA 02138 , USA

5. Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin , Austin, TX 78712 , USA

6. Epsilon Systems Solution Inc. , Las Cruces, NM 88005 , USA

Abstract

Abstract Examination of avian eggshell at the Old Town archaeological site in Southwestern New Mexico, United States of America, indicates that scarlet macaw (Ara macao) breeding occurred during the Classic Mimbres period (early AD 1100s). Current archaeological and archaeogenomic evidence from throughout the American Southwest/Mexican Northwest (SW/NW) suggests that Indigenous people bred scarlet macaws at an unknown location(s) between AD 900 and 1200 and likely again at the northwestern Mexico site of Paquimé post-AD 1275. However, there is a lack of direct evidence for breeding, or the location(s) of scarlet macaw breeding itself, within this area. This research, for the first time, provides evidence of scarlet macaw breeding using scanning electron microscopy of eggshells from Old Town.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Link

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article-pdf/2/6/pgad138/51011400/pgad138.pdf

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