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.
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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.
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.
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.
Would that be a ladened or unladened chicken?
Chickens found Captain Cook?
I thought he was killed in Hawaii by gentler, kinder natives...
There.
Fixed it for you.
I figure that Polynesian chickens found it! They haven’t found any Polynesian human bones, have they?
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