Archaeological location and proteomic identifications of the feather sample from Tomb No. 1 at the Wuwangdun site. (IMAGE)

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Archaeological location and proteomic identifications of the feather sample from Tomb No. 1 at the Wuwangdun site.

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(a) Location of Tomb No. 1 at the Wuwangdun site in Huainan, Anhui Province. (b) Uncovered feather decoration from Eastern Chamber I of the tomb. The red box indicates the sampling area shown in c. (c) The sampled flake (WWDF1). Dark blue barbs and brown filaments are indicated by blue and brown dashed outlines, respectively. (d-h) The five species whose feather have been identified from WWDF1. The image of these birds were obtained from BirdLife International (https://www.birdlife.org), including hoopoe (d), black-headed grosbeak (e), yellow-bellied whistler (f), sliver-breasted broadbill (g), common crossbill (h). (i) A short-horned water buffalo jade artifact from the tomb of Fu Hao (13th century BCE) at the Yinxu Site.

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