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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.

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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: 1492; ageofsail; agriculture; aintnobodyherebutus; animalhusbandry; chickens; columbus; columbusday; dietandcuisine; emptydna; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; mtdna; polynesians; poultry; science
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To: DesertConservative

No, it was his boss, the station owner.... Mr Carlson.

Les was giving the play-by-play from the ground, sounding eerily like the guy from the Hindenburg disaster (Oh the humanity!).


61 posted on 09/16/2009 7:13:42 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: SunkenCiv
"Blam will have the link I'm sure. :')"

Sorry, I don't.

62 posted on 09/16/2009 7:38:52 PM PDT by blam
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To: LottieDah

IMO, there were *Indians* before there were Europeans/white folks.


63 posted on 09/17/2009 4:06:39 AM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: wolfcreek

Someone had to come first...even the egg came before the chicken.


64 posted on 09/17/2009 5:56:47 AM PDT by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: AUH2O Repub

I figure I was born here, so I must be a native American. I like to check off the little race box. The HR people get so excited.


65 posted on 09/17/2009 8:42:23 AM PDT by OpeEdMunkey (Eat right,...exercise...die anyway.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Thanks for the clarification :)

What a terrific show. TV comedy has really gone downhill since.


66 posted on 09/17/2009 10:40:59 AM PDT by DesertConservative
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To: Nikas777

The first “outsiders” to reach America were probably several thousand Asians who later became American “Indians”.


67 posted on 09/17/2009 11:16:15 AM PDT by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: Nikas777; SunkenCiv
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
68 posted on 09/17/2009 12:05:25 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Barack Obama is an old Kenyan word for Jimmy Carter)
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To: colorado tanker

Funniest TV line ever. I have not seen the show in decade or so and I still remember it!


69 posted on 09/17/2009 12:31:07 PM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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To: Nikas777
Thor Heyerdahl and Kon Tiki PING!!!
70 posted on 09/17/2009 12:33:15 PM PDT by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
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To: Nikas777
The series is out in DVD. The consensus of the interviews was that was the funniest episode in what was IMHO a very funny series.
71 posted on 09/17/2009 2:09:44 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Barack Obama is an old Kenyan word for Jimmy Carter)
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To: blam
Blammit, Dam! ;') No no, let me do it. ;') Here's the chicken topics and more, chrono sorted:
72 posted on 09/17/2009 4:46:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Whoops.
73 posted on 09/17/2009 4:54:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv
"Blammit, Dam! ;') No no, let me do it. ;') Here's the chicken topics and more, chrono sorted:"

Well, you do get paid a lot more than me... Oops! (Sheeeh)

74 posted on 09/17/2009 4:56:20 PM PDT by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

Damn, Blam forgets! There is a Haka Photo from WW1 from the ANZAC CORPS in France that was posted on the NZ Blacks Thread, must network


75 posted on 09/17/2009 5:02:38 PM PDT by Little Bill (Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
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To: Little Bill
"Damn, Blam forgets! "

Age does take it's toll. (ahem)

76 posted on 09/17/2009 5:12:52 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Bill you are only two years older than I, resist the descent.


77 posted on 09/17/2009 5:17:01 PM PDT by Little Bill (Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
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To: Little Bill
"Bill you are only two years older than I, resist the descent."

Okay...maybe laziness then?

78 posted on 09/17/2009 5:25:34 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Probably, I have to fight off the same thing myself. I just had to give you a chance for a rebuttal.

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.


79 posted on 09/17/2009 5:38:22 PM PDT by Little Bill (Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
"Soft tyranny of low expectations."

LOL!

80 posted on 09/17/2009 5:48:39 PM PDT by Flag_This (ACORN delenda est)
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