Scarlet Macaw Avicultural Dynamics in Southern Arizona

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Isotopic and Animal aDNA Analyses in the Southwest/Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Our understanding of scarlet macaw aviculture throughout the southwestern United States has greatly benefited from recent methodological advances, leading to new discoveries in regional management dynamics, breeding regimes, and exchange networks between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries. These studies have mainly focused on specimens from Chaco Canyon and the Mimbres region in the southwest United States, and Paquime in the Mexican northwest, leaving a gap in our understanding of macaw aviculture at sites and time periods associated with southern Arizona. Here we summarize the current state of scarlet macaw (Ara macao cyanoptera) research and report results from new isotopic, radiocarbon, and paleogenomic analyses to examine the dynamics of aviculture in this region through time.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Isotopic and Animal aDNA Analyses in the Southwest/Northwest   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36057.0