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  Food may have been scarce in Chaco Canyon

  colorado.edu

  Chaco Canyon, a site that was once central to the lives of precolonial peoples called Anasazi, may not have been able to produce enough food to …

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  Researchers discover oldest tattoo tool in western North America

  phys.org - Washington State University

  Washington State University archaeologists have discovered the oldest tattooing artifact in western North America. With a handle of skunkbush and a …

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  Early Native Americans Imported Exotic Parrots, DNA Reveals

  National Geographic - Michael Greshko

  The discovery suggests that scarlet macaws were being bred for trade centuries earlier than previously thought. For more than two millennia, indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica have traded macaws and included their feathers in rituals. The birds held immense symbolic value and represented sun gods in …

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  Conservatism took hold here 1,000 years ago. Until the people fled.

  The Washington Post

  During the eighth century, a new kind of civilization arose in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon. It started a social movement that swept across what is now the U.S. Southwest, transforming people’s beliefs about how to live, worship and farm. For the next six centuries, Ancestral Puebloan peoples built …

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  Michael Ruggeri

  Feb 13, 2018
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  Archaeologist says fire, not corn, key to prehistoric survival in arid Southwest

  eurekalert.org - University of Cincinnati

  Conventional wisdom holds that prehistoric villagers planted corn, and lots of it, to survive the dry and hostile conditions of the American …