Aztec Artifact Recovered From A Cave in Utah?

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There is more information from the Edge of the Cedars State Park and Museum:

"The macaw feather sash is a unique artifact. The technique of using feathered cords is known from only a few Basketmaker Period cave sites (A.D. 750-950). The sash was taken from a cave site without documentation of any artifacts associated with it. However, the reported presence of certain pottery types in this cave site suggested that the sash dated to around A.D. 1050-1150. Radio-carbon dating confirmed a date of A.D. 1150.

The feathers are from the Scarlet Macaw, a parrot native to Mexico. This demonstrates that the Ancestral Puebloan people had a vast trading network. Because the method of tying the feathers is understood primarily from an Aztec artifact in Mexico, it is possible that the feathered cords were made there and traded in to our area. However, buried macaws have been found in several locations in the southwest, suggesting that some live birds were traded - so the feathered cords may have been made locally.

The color and fragility likely indicate the sash was used for ceremonial purposes. One of the tings seldom seen in prehistoric artifacts is how colorful they might have been. It is startling to see how beautifully these bright colors are preserved."

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More reading can be found from an article called "Origins of an Anasazi Scarlet Macaw Feather Artifact". Nancy Borson, Frances Berdan, Edward Strak, Jack States, Peter J. Wettstein
American Antiquity, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan., 1998)

"The artifact was constructed of 12 ropes of twisted yucca fiber; 11 remain. These ropes each roughly 5-6 mm in diameter and 470-495 mm in length, served as a structural base of the artifact to which were attached the tassel-eared (S. aberti) squirrel pelt, a buckskin strap, and more than 2,000 scarlet macaw feathers"

[einbaum]

The thumbnail did look like minced meat…

[redtsun]

When you take a 3, 000 mile walk and when you get home you realize you forgot your sash made of 2, 000 macaw feathers at your friend's house

[knowyourg]

Damn that must’ve been crazy beautiful when it was first made

[jewishspacelaseroperator]

They Puebloans, Hohokam, and Mogollon had extensive trade with the Aztecs. They were breeding macaws in southern Arizona! Thanks to these trade routes then connecting with more trade routes that ran farther east, there have been Aztec artifacts found at Cahokia, across the river from Chicago!

[BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat]

Reminds me of how they have found flint and other rocks for arrows ect. In Canada that were traded from as far as Yellowstone national park in the states. People underestimate how far humans can walk especially if they have a purpose and know where they are going

[Angelofloveandhappiness]

So cool seeing things from so long ago. It's an honor to lay eyes upon things like that

[elgrifolorian]

Our Tribes had large trade networks from North America to South.

[Eevcee]

Although extremely unlikely, I like to think that the Aztlan myth refers to the Canyonlands area and the reason they left is because of drought. Plus, Nahuatl is in the same language family as the Great Basin tribes. Since the Nahua people were all previously nomads from the north, they had to have lots of connections to the tribes of that area.

[rosemoreno]

Yes the ancient natives of south western North America used to trade goods with tribes from Meso America there are petroglyphs of Macaw parrots which we know they had to trade cuz those birds are only native to that specific region I'm from Albuquerque and at the petroglyphs National Monument there is a spot called Macaw trail it's really fascinating!!!👍

[Fish_Master]

They found parrot feathers in the gila wilderness in southwest New Mexico as well

[Ramon]

The opening scene is Teotihuacán; it predates the Aztec by centuries. Macaws cover a vast territory, not solely Mexico. Land and sea trade routes that predate Europeans are only surprise and revolution to non-indigenous people. Follow the food and you will learn that trades routes go back millennia to Carál, Maya, Taíno, Moche, Chachapoya, etc.

[YTjndallas]

Imagine how it must’ve looked when it was brand new, 850 years ago!

[michelemurphy]

There were huge aviaries in New Mexico & Colorado from what I remember from Anthropology courses years ago. There was trade happening that extended all the way to MI {huge copper deposits} and down through MesoAmerica. The birds were traded up from the south and aviaries were built to then partake in the trades. There were also giant sloth bones and leather shoes found in caves and carved/built dwellings in NM, CO.

It is a wonderfully rich history…Mayan rather than Aztec.

[lookronjon]

The Aztec were getting copper from the Great Lakes area. They traveled great distances.

[robynmaxwell]

Old maps show the Four Corners area as the ancestral home of the Aztecs

[quintsmith]

I have property in Colorado near the Wyoming border. The Ute people also traded with the Aztecs as I've found obsidian(volcanic glass) shards. Had to research how the Ute would've had obsidian and discovered that they traded with the Aztecs as well and are possibly related. Truly fascinating

[diegoochoa]

It's crazy how little people know about the native people's of the country they live in.
"Aztec" cultures and native American cultures intermingled all the time and were closely related. Aztec culture has been well known to have reached the southwestern states.

[bluefish]

FYI - The Pyramid of the Sun is not Aztec, it's Teotihuacan, though the Aztecs did build a small pyramid at the end of the site. Also the SW American Indians expelled out the Aztecs and drove them into Mexico, then later developed trade with them, so it shouldn't be a surprise there's Aztec artifacts in Utah.

[awake]

The Navajo make down feather blankets. They look just like that except they're made from a different bird.... but yes, our trade routes were VERY extensive. There are artifacts from East to west, north to south. That's how Lewis and Clark made it to the west coast, by taking the trade route.

[toddlytodd]

Dude there's copper from lake superior and shells from the gulf at Cahokia Mounds here in St Louis. The natives had extensive trade networks.