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ANTHROPOLOGY Detail of a mummified blue-fronted Amazon parrot recovered from Pica 8 cemetery in the Atacama Desert. Parrot rearing in the pre-Columbian Atacama Desert The feathers of tropical birds were signs of wealth and status in pre-Columbian Andean societies. However, understanding of the import networks that brought the feathers to...
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