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Many Maya sites, including Copan, have written inscriptions with the exact date structures were built and of political events, which are backed up by archeological dating The "Elephants" on Stelae B of Copan in the photo are Macaws/parrots with curved beaks https://peabody.harvard.edu/cmhicurrent-researchhieriglyphic-stairway https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/dynasty-founder-yax-kuk-mo-according-to-the-inscriptions/ https://www.maya-archaeology.org/neotropical-Mayan-ethnozoology-sacred-utilitarian-animals-reptiles-fish-birds-insects-iconography-epigraphy-faunal-remains/Mayan-iconography-scarlet-macaws-Tzakol-Early-Classic-bird-images.php https://www.maya-archaeology.org/scarlet-macaw-ballcourt-maya-ballgame-goalstones/scarlet-macaw-ara-macao-maya-ballgame-ballcourt-sculptures-goalstones.php https://gradschool.psu.edu/sites/GradSchool/McNairJournals/mcnair_jrnl2017/files/Chapman.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/latin-american-antiquity/article/abs/settlement-history-and-the-classic-collapse-at-copan-a-redefined-chronological-perspective/064579A73D12BC3BA7FDB6EE7763A827 https://www.jstor.org/stable/26307230
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