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 firstthe 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 Chiledating prior to Columbus discovery of America and resembling the DNA of a fowl species native to Polynesiamay challenge that notion, researchers say.
Chickens could not have gotten to South America on their ownthey 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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The term “Native American” was coined by the Dept. of Interior in the 1970s I believe.
Polynesian Chicken served over a bed of rice with sauteed onions and peppers.
Yep, guess they got here first.
Did they come over when the Continents were joined?
You're right. I was born here and am therefore a native. And God love me, the most un-PC guy you'll ever meet!
Touche! Nice one!
I was gonna post the same thing. Obviously native Americans, or American "Indians" if you prefer, discovered it first since they were already here.
But they're not from India?!
You're kiddin' me...right?
Maybe because his sailors brought gonnorhea and the Plague his visits had the most impact. It made the real estate preety cheap for subsequent visitors who wanted to stay.
I prefer to call them First Americans, they are no more “native” than I am.
Polynesians best get in the long line of people who found the Americas before Columbus.
Wasn’t that Les Nessman, apologizing about throwing Thanksgiving turkeys from the WKRP newscopter to a crowd? LOL... great show :)
Chickens could not have gotten to South America on their ownthey had to be taken by humans,
Soft tyranny of low expectations.
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Clearly an early affirmative action program. Chicken’s can’t “make it” without the Man.
The native Americans...
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I consider myself Native American because I was born here.
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Thanks Nikas777. We've had a topic or two about this as well, but again, I'm too tired out after a long squawk. Blam will have the link I'm sure. :') |
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....KFC take out?
You are so right. Regardless of who came here before him, Columbus changed history and changed the world; the others didn’t. They left no mark on history, even if they left chicken bones.
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