{"id":1692,"date":"2016-01-11T11:17:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T18:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2016-01-11T11:17:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T18:17:51","slug":"earth-notes-chaco-canyons-ancient-exotic-birds-knau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1692","title":{"rendered":"Earth Notes: Chaco Canyon&rsquo;s Ancient, Exotic Birds | KNAU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knau.org\/post\/earth-notes-chaco-canyon-s-ancient-exotic-birds#stream\/0\">Earth Notes: Chaco Canyon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ancient, Exotic Birds | KNAU Arizona Public Radio#stream\/0<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Researchers recently worked out carbon-14 dates on scarlet macaw skeletons, most from the great house of Pueblo Bonito. They found that macaws were present at least a century before archaeologists thought\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsome as early as A.D. 900 to 975. The results from this direct dating method are considered more accurate than previous, relative dates.  <\/p>\n<p>Chaco was a central ceremonial place in the early Puebloan world, with a complex society and upper-crust elites. To archaeologists, <strong>the dates suggest that the elites, who controlled access to the highly prized macaws, were in power earlier than had previously been thought<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knau.org\/post\/earth-notes-chaco-canyon-s-ancient-exotic-birds#stream\/0\">Earth Notes: Chaco Canyon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ancient, Exotic Birds | KNAU Arizona Public Radio#stream\/0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Notes: Chaco Canyon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Ancient, Exotic Birds | KNAU Arizona Public Radio#stream\/0 Researchers recently worked out carbon-14 dates on scarlet macaw skeletons, most from the great house of Pueblo Bonito. They found that macaws were present at least a century before archaeologists thought\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsome as early as A.D. 900 to 975. The results from this direct &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1692\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Earth Notes: Chaco Canyon&rsquo;s Ancient, Exotic Birds | KNAU<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}