Centuries before the Inca, Peru’s wealthy imported parrots from afar

Centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire, a much smaller kingdom on the central coast of Peru already had a sophisticated ...
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Bird droppings helped build one of ancient Peru’s most powerful kingdoms

New research suggests seabird guano helped transform the Chincha Kingdom into one of the most prosperous societies in ancient Peru. Chemical clues in centuries-old maize show farmers fertilized their ...
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Peru's guano coastal birds face crisis as population drops over 75%, scientists say

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peru battles to save seabirds from disease and climate threats LIMA (Reuters) -Scientists along Peru's central Pacific coast are ...

In Ancient Peru, Feather Traders Transported Live Parrots Across Treacherous Mountains

The team suspected that “these birds were wild-caught in the rainforest, transported alive across the Andes, and kept in ...

Ancient Andean parrot trade route stretched over 300 miles

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 ...