Title Birds of the sun : Macaws and people in the U.S. southwest and Mexican northwest / edited by Christopher W. Schwartz, Stephen Plog, and Patricia A. Gilman

Published Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2022 Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 359 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps Series Amerind studies in anthropology Amerind studies in anthropology. Summary "Scarlet macaws are native to tropical forests ranging from the Gulf Coast and southern regions of Mexico to Bolivia, but they are present at numerous archaeological sites in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Although these birds have been noted and marveled at through the decades, new syntheses of early excavations, new analytical methods, and new approaches to understanding the past now allow us to explore the significance and distribution of scarlet macaws to a degree that was previously impossible. Birds of the Sun explores the many aspects of macaws, especially scarlet macaws, that have made them important to Native peoples living in this region for thousands of years. Leading experts discuss the significance of these birds, including perspectives from a Zuni author, a cultural anthropologist specializing in historic Pueblo societies, and archaeologists who have studied pre-Hispanic societies in Mesoamerica and the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Chapters examine the highly variable distribution and frequency of macaws in the past, their presence on rock art and kiva murals, the human experience of living with and transporting macaws, macaw biology and life history, and what skeletal remains suggest about the health of macaws in the past. Experts provide an extensive, region-by-region analysis, from early to late periods, of what we know about the presence, health, and depositional contexts of macaws and parrots, with specific case studies from the Hohokam, Chaco, Mimbres, Mogollon Highlands, Northern Sinagua, and Casas Grandes regions, where these birds are most abundant."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Macaws -- Southwest, New -- History Macaws -- Mexico, North -- History Ethnoornithology -- Southwest, New Ethnoornithology -- Mexico, North Indians of North America -- Ethnozoology -- Southwest, New Indians of Mexico -- Ethnozoology SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Macaws Indians of North America -- Ethnozoology Indians of Mexico -- Ethnozoology Ethnoornithology North Mexico New Southwest Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Schwartz, Christopher W., 1989- editor. Plog, Stephen, editor. Gilman, Patricia A., editor. Project Muse. distributor. LC no. 2021041175 ISBN 9780816545360 0816545367

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