A 1,700-Year-Old Spider Monkey Skeleton Revealed How Native Americans Interacted Politically

The bad news is, the unfortunate spider monkey had a fairly sad life once it arrived in Teotihuacan. Archaeological analysis suggests that the animal was kept in captivity for at least two years (via PNAS). Later, it was offered as a bloody sacrifice in …The bad news is, the unfortunate spider monkey had a fairly sad life once it arrived in Teotihuacan. Archaeological analysis suggests that the animal was kept in captivity for at least two years (via PNAS). Later, it was offered as a bloody sacrifice in …