Archeological Context
The species was originally described by Wetmore based on material excavated in 1934 by L. J. Korn from a pre-Columbian Amerindian kitchen midden (dump for domestic waste) near Concordia, Saint Croix, without specifying the age of the bone.
In 1987, Máiz López found several bones of a single bird at the Hernández Colón archeological site on the eastern bank of the Río Bucaná in south central Puerto Rico The archeological side in the semi-arid southern foothills is a pre-Columbian Saladoid village of approximately 15,000 m2 (3.7 acres) situated on an alluvial terrace. Máiz López found the bones in a kitchen midden in the layer that corresponded with the base and beginning of the Pomarrosa phase, which is stylistically related to the Hacienda Grande ceramic style that lasted globally from about 200 BCE to 400 CE. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal samples indicate that the Pomarrosa phase started locally around 300 CE.
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