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Chicken Bones Suggest Polynesians Found Americas Before Columbus
livescience.com ^ | 04 June 2007 | Heather Whipps

Posted on 09/16/2009 1:07:41 PM PDT by Nikas777

Chicken Bones Suggest Polynesians Found Americas Before Columbus

By Heather Whipps, Special to LiveScience

Which came first–the chicken or the European?

Popular history, and a familiar rhyme about Christopher Columbus, holds that Europeans made contact with the Americas in 1492, with some arguing that the explorer and his crew were the first outsiders to reach the New World.

But chicken bones recently unearthed on the coast of Chile—dating prior to Columbus’ “discovery” of America and resembling the DNA of a fowl species native to Polynesia—may challenge that notion, researchers say.

“Chickens could not have gotten to South America on their own—they had to be taken by humans,” said anthropologist Lisa Matisoo-Smith from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Polynesians made contact with the west coast of South America as much as a century before any Spanish conquistadors, her findings imply.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science
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To: Little Bill; SunkenCiv
"There is so much stuff out there that doesn’t conform to those things that we were brought up to believe it makes my head spin."

Yup. Very, very interesting.

I have taken something of a sabbatical from the subject for the last year or so...It tugs me back every once in a while but not with the same dedication as before.

81 posted on 09/17/2009 6:27:20 PM PDT by blam
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To: colorado tanker

It has been years since I saw it I must add it to my Christmas list. My fave episode is the one where you had these British punk rockers but they were punk rockers who were so punk they dressed like business men. I can’t remember the details. Also, my favorite is the one where they do a remote broadcast in an audio store and they get held up and a telephone repair man had this funny line about a monopoly but that is all I remember.


82 posted on 09/18/2009 7:09:51 AM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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To: HamiltonJay

Columbus was fortunate to be the individual who got here after the European invention of the printing press. He could spread the word of his discovery and others could respond. The Vikings settled for awhile, but went home.


83 posted on 09/18/2009 3:46:17 PM PDT by twigs
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
A chicken with a tailwind could make it!

Would that be a ladened or unladened chicken?

84 posted on 10/12/2009 5:47:33 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Obama Garden Club: Nothing but plants.)
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To: VOA
Or chickens found Polynesia before Captain Cook.

Chickens found Captain Cook?
I thought he was killed in Hawaii by gentler, kinder natives...

85 posted on 10/12/2009 5:51:40 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Obama Garden Club: Nothing but plants.)
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To: muawiyah
Take a good look at different Indians ~ the Chinese made it to America, stayed here, thrived, [forgot their language, even forgot they were Chinese,] built their own civilizations, end of story

There.
Fixed it for you.

86 posted on 10/12/2009 5:57:32 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Obama Garden Club: Nothing but plants.)
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To: Publius6961

I figure that Polynesian chickens found it! They haven’t found any Polynesian human bones, have they?


87 posted on 10/12/2009 8:19:23 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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