Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 20 minutes ago

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On October 5, 2021, Cyler Conrad (Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of New Mexico) explored how archaeologists have identified and contextualized turkey pens in the Ancestral Pueblo archaeological record, what that means for understanding turkey management, and how conceptualizing turkey penning allows us to better understand the processes of turkey domestication and long-term human-turkey relationships.

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