Experts say parrots were prized for their vibrant feathers, which held deep cultural value in pre-Hispanic societies.
Centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire, a much smaller kingdom on the central coast of Peru already had a sophisticated ...
Learn how ancient DNA and isotope analysis revealed that Amazon parrots were transported alive across the Andes to coastal Peru in a pre-Inca trade network.
Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the ...
A new study shows that parrots and Amazon macaws were traded across the Andes for elite feather ornaments long before the ...
Ancient DNA and other clues from feathers found in modern Peru hint that the ancient Ychsma culture imported birds from the distant Amazon.
Ancient parrots really got around. A new analysis of their DNA found that humans transported living Amazonian macaw parrots across the Andes mountains to coastal Peru hundreds of years before the Inca ...
New analysis of ancient parrot DNA has revealed that vibrant Amazonian parrots were transported alive across the Andes to coastal Peru centuries before the Inca Empire, highlighting a sophisticated ...
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