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Practice Listening: Fill in the Blanks (Type In) ID: #35028 Medium Abandoned Pueblos
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Abandoned  Pueblos  are  scattered  throughout  the  southwestern  US.  And  at  many,  archaeologists  have    a  curious  artifact:  the  skeletons  of  scarlet  macaws.  The  birds'  bright  red  feathers  are  known  to  have  been  an  important  status  symbol,  a  signifier  of    for  people  throughout  the  American  tropics  and  the  southwest,  both  in  the  ancient  world  and  today.  But  macaws  are  a  tropical  bird,  whose    never  extended  north  of  today's  US-  Mexico  border.  So  how  did  the  Pueblo  people  obtain  the  birds?  To  examine  the  birds'  origin,  scientists    mitochondrial  DNA  found  within  macaw  bones  from  two  sites  in  New  Mexico:  Chaco  Canyon  and  the  Mimbres  region.  Turns  out,    three  quarters  of  the  birds  had  identical  mitochondrial  genome  sequences--meaning  the  ancient  birds  came  from  the  same  maternal  line.  That  suggests  they  were  all  the  products  of  a    operation.

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