The team suspected that “these birds were wild-caught in the rainforest, transported alive across the Andes, and kept in captivity somewhere on the Pacific coast,” Olah explained. “We moved beyond ...
The team believes that humans living in Pachacamac captured several species of Amazonian macaw parrots that were native to the lowland rainforest just east of the Andes. The birds were then carried ...
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.
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