North American archaeology is increasingly embracing the study of existing museum collections to fulfill longstanding ethical obligations to document curated materials and to avoid unnecessary excavation of archaeological sites. Working with collections from historic excavations in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, this article confronts some of the challenges of collections-based research and demonstrates the benefits of overcoming them. Chaco was the center of a regional network that developed in the northern U.S. Southwest between AD 800 and 1150. Frequently referenced is the presence of nonlocal macaws and parrots, brought in and raised within the canyon. The foundation of our understanding of these birds, however, remains shaky. The research presented here integrates a zooarchaeological reanalysis with legacy data and archival documentation from more than 130 years of archaeological exploration. It provides a revised number of individuals, diachronic and spatial perspectives on deposition, evidence for the practice of curation, and insight into the care that birds were afforded. The construction of osteobiographies refocuses attention on these birds as living beings rather than as objects leveraged in trade and social status. Though often complex and time-consuming, working across multiple collections—both artifactual and archival—has the potential to provide new insights from “old” data.

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整合跨馆藏研究和档案研究：新墨西哥州查科峡谷对金刚鹦鹉和鹦鹉的新见解


北美考古学越来越多地接受对现有博物馆藏品的研究，以履行记录精选材料的长期道德义务，并避免对考古遗址进行不必要的挖掘。本文通过研究新墨西哥州查科峡谷 （Chaco Canyon） 的历史发掘成果，探讨了基于藏品的研究面临的一些挑战，并展示了克服这些挑战的好处。查科是公元 800 年至 1150 年间在美国西南部北部发展的区域网络的中心。经常被提及的是非本地金刚鹦鹉和鹦鹉的存在，它们被带入峡谷并在峡谷内饲养。然而，我们对这些鸟类的理解基础仍然不稳定。这里介绍的研究将动物考古学再分析与 130 多年考古勘探的遗留数据和档案文件相结合。它提供了修订后的个体数量、沉积的历时和空间视角、管理实践的证据以及对鸟类所得到照顾的见解。骨骼传记的构建将这些鸟类重新聚焦于作为生物，而不是作为贸易和社会地位杠杆的对象。尽管通常既复杂又耗时，但跨多个集合（人工和存档）工作有可能从“旧”数据中提供新的见解。