Archaeology of Human Experience (Other Keyword)
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The Human Experience of Transporting and Raising Scarlet Macaws at Paquimé in Chihuahua, Mexico (2021)
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This is an abstract from the "Birds in Archaeology: New Approaches to Understanding the Diverse Roles of Birds in the Past" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the US Southwest and northwest Mexico, prehispanic people valued birds as dietary resources, for their ritual significance, as integral elements of Indigenous cosmologies, and for the economic value of their feathers. Their multifaceted significance is clearest at the site of Paquimé in...