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Macaws are among the most beautiful, colorful, and intelligent birds that exist. Throughout the Americas, people venerated these birds in complex and sophisticated ways. This book’s exploration of how the societies settled in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest acquired and assigned meaning to scarlet macaws, along with similar research, inspired some of my own archaeological and interdisciplinary work studying the circulation of macaws and parrots between the Amazon basin and the Atacama Desert.