@article{4e6ea29bf85b4694817445e8b527a44c,
title = "What is this bird? The quest to identify parrot remains from the Heyward-Washington House, Charleston, South Carolina",
abstract = "Excavations in the 1970s at the ca. 1772 Heyward-Washington House in Charleston, South Carolina, produced a rich and diverse archaeological assemblage spanning the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Among the vertebrate remains are four bones from a large member of the parrot family. We now believe the bird was a blue-fronted or turquoise-fronted amazon parrot (Psittacidae: Amazona aestiva), an animal originating in South America. Over the decades, we have studied the zooarchaeological signature of social identity in Charleston, the evolving urban environment, and the vast trade networks of the colonial port city, all of which are embodied in the remains of this single bird. The parrot leads to a discussion of social roles of captive birds in early Charleston, the eclectic interests of city residents, and the city{\textquoteright}s global trade networks.",
keywords = "Amazon parrot, pets, social identity, trade networks, urban environments",
author = "Zierden, {Martha A.} and Reitz, {Elizabeth J.} and Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman and Reitsema, {Laurie J.} and Manzano, {Bruce L.}",
note = "Funding Information: Dr. Herold?s excavations were funded in part by a grant from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, matched by in-kind services of volunteers and contributions from The Charleston Museum. We are grateful to Nicolas Laracuente, Daniel T. Ksepka, Daniel B. Thomas, Dwight Williams, as well as the staff of the ornithology collections at the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, particularly Christopher M. Milensky, for their assistance. We also appreciate the earlier support offered by Paul W. Parmalee and Glen E. Woolfenden, now deceased. We appreciate the thoughtful comments from Jon Bernard Marcoux, Rochelle Marrinan, and an anonymous reviewer. Their suggestions strengthened this article. Figures 1?3 were prepared by Susan Duser. A version of this paper was presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Athens, Georgia, in 2016. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, {\textcopyright} Southeastern Archaeological Conference 2018.",
year = "2019",
month = sep,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1080/0734578X.2018.1555407",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "38",
pages = "240--250",
journal = "Southeastern Archaeology",
issn = "0734-578X",
publisher = "Southeastern Archaeological Conference",
number = "3",
}