Early procurement of scarlet macaws and the emergence of social complexity in Chaco Canyon, NM

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 27, 2015, Pages 8238-8243

  Watson, Adam S ^a   Plog, Stephen ^b   Culleton, Brendan J ^c   Gilman, Patricia A ^d   LeBlanc, Steven A ^e   Whiteley, Peter M ^a   Claramunt, Santiago ^a   Kennett, Douglas J ^c  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Chaco canyon; Scarlet macaws; Sociopolitical complexity

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; CARBON;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BIRD; CHRONOLOGY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MACAW; MASS SPECTROMETER; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIETY; ANIMAL; BONE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PARROT; PROCEDURES; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ARA MACAO; AVES; KATSUWONUS PELAMIS; PSITTACIDAE; THEOBROMA CACAO;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE AND BONES; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARROTS; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SKELETON; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84936976774     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509825112     Document Type: Article

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