Gregory's Serveromg look at this lil guy from 900-1430 Peru
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 @carithlee @futzle I’m guessing that’s not a F. cattus; didn’t those come from Eurasia with European colonists? If so, I wonder what species that would have been  @acb @carithlee Good point; I would have guessed perhaps a puma given the area of the Chimu culture that likely made it, but I see there are other wild cats in the region such as the ocelot, pampas cat, and the Andean mountain cat. @futzle @carithlee How sure are we that it was in fact a felid, rather than some other critter with big eyes and pointy ears? @acb I'd be pretty confident. Chimu artifacts (and the preceding Moche culture too) feature a shitton of cats, primarily pumas and jaguars. @carithlee   @futzle @acb @carithlee I absolutely love how nerdy this thread got. Thank you.  @carithlee tres adorable! i wonder if the british museum will ever give it back to peru.    @carithlee pixel cats have been with us for longer than anyone knew. :blabcat:
 "Early example of furry culture." Clearly predating Inca "knot numbers" (which is is, if you look at it, a kind of binary system).   |
@carithlee Astonishingly accurate map of the continental USA for the time