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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.

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

  The Washington Post - Annalee Newitz

  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 …