What is this bird? The quest to identify parrot remains from the Heyward-Washington House, Charleston, South Carolina

Zierden, Martha; Reitz, Elizabeth J.; Pavão-Zuckerman, Barnet; Reitsema, Laurie J; Manzano, Bruce L.

doi:10.1080/0734578x.2018.1555407

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“…As previously mentioned, there is no archaeological evidence for guinea pigs in Puerto Rico or elsewhere in the Caribbean during the colonial period, thus the Charleston specimen probably originated from Peru. Furthermore, the Charleston guinea pig was discarded in a privy, along with the remains of an Amazonian parrot 63 , suggesting that both animals were acquired as South American 'curiosities' (see SI information on Heyward-Washington House).…”

Section: Historic Translocations and Interactions With Europe And Normentioning

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Ancient DNA of Guinea Pigs (Cavia spp.) Indicates a Probable New Center of Domestication and Pathways of Global Distribution

Lord

Collins

deFrance

et al. 2020

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Guinea pigs (Cavia spp.) have a long association with humans. From as early as 10,000 years ago they were a wild food source. Later, domesticated Cavia porcellus were dispersed well beyond their native range through pre-Columbian exchange networks and, more recently, widely across the globe. Here we present 46 complete mitogenomes of archaeological guinea pigs from sites in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, the Caribbean, Belgium and the United States to elucidate their evolutionary history, origins and paths of dispersal. our results indicate an independent centre of domestication of Cavia in the eastern colombian Highlands. We identify a peruvian origin for the initial introduction of domesticated guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) beyond South America into the caribbean. We also demonstrate that peru was the probable source of the earliest known guinea pigs transported, as part of the exotic pet trade, to both Europe and the southeastern United States. Finally, we identify a modern reintroduction of guinea pigs to Puerto Rico, where local inhabitants use them for food. This research demonstrates that the natural and cultural history of guinea pigs is more complex than previously known and has implications for other studies regarding regional to global-scale studies of mammal domestication, translocation, and distribution. The use of ancient DNA (aDNA) in studies of animal domestication and subsequent translocation has radically improved our ability to identify spatially, temporally, and culturally variable processes of domestication and the diversity of social networks behind domestic species distribution (e.g. 1,2). Increasingly, aDNA studies are revising previous assumptions of geographically conscripted animal domestication and dispersal events to reveal multiple centers, timings, and processes of domestication of the world's most prominent domestic animals (e.g. pigs, chickens, cattle, dogs 3-6). Because domestic animals are exemplar proxies for investigating past human migration and interaction, understanding long-term, diachronic patterns of when and where species domestication and

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confidence: 99%

Ancient DNA of Guinea Pigs (Cavia spp.) Indicates a Probable New Center of Domestication and Pathways of Global Distribution

Lord

Collins

deFrance

et al. 2020

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“…Evidence from the eastern United States also supports this record. For example, zooarchaeological analysis of bird skeletal remains from a privy at the Heyward-Washington House in Charleston, South Carolina, confirmed the presence of a blue-fronted or turquoise-fronted amazon parrot (Amazona aestiva) dating to the early 19 th century (Zierden et al 2019). Charleston, like San Francisco during and after the Gold Rush (Delgado 2009), was a seaport city and global center of commerce.…”

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The Monkeys and Parrots of Gold Rush-era California

Conrad

2022

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As immigrant gold miners migrated en masse to San Francisco and northern California during the Gold Rush-era (ca. 1849–1855), they experienced new animals. Stopping in ports throughout Central and South America, these argonauts saw, felt, smelled, heard, and occasionally consumed, mammals, birds, reptiles, and many more creatures, which were wholly exotic to those species found at home. Two types of animals that the Gold Rush populace encountered during this era include parrots and monkeys. Although found throughout tropical environments in areas far distant from northern California, these animals became quickly imported to San Francisco during the early 1850s. A wild, turbulent Gold Rush-era helped facilitate the importation of these exotic animal types, both for comfort and entertainment, as they helped provide a source of companionship for miners unaccustomed to the shock of 1850s northern California.

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A Zooarchaeological Study of Households and Fishing in Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 1710–1900

Reitz

Zierden

2021

Int J Histor Archaeol

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What is this bird? The quest to identify parrot remains from the Heyward-Washington House, Charleston, South Carolina

Cited by 3 publications

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Ancient DNA of Guinea Pigs (Cavia spp.) Indicates a Probable New Center of Domestication and Pathways of Global Distribution

Ancient DNA of Guinea Pigs (Cavia spp.) Indicates a Probable New Center of Domestication and Pathways of Global Distribution

The Monkeys and Parrots of Gold Rush-era California

A Zooarchaeological Study of Households and Fishing in Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 1710–1900

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