Re: Chicken in South America

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:22:38 +0200, "Uwe Müller"
<uwemueller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:o5hb6357s10okle78b33rkour0ikipqbvv@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=35&objectid=10443758

"A single chicken bone has provided anthropologists with the
strongest evidence yet to suggest that Polynesian seafarers sailed
to South America before the discovery of the New World by European
explorers.

The possibility that Polynesians had direct contact with the
indigenous people of South America has long intrigued experts on
ancient human migrations, but hard evidence has been difficult to
come by.

However, a study by scientists from New Zealand and Chile has shown
that chickens may well have been introduced into South America from
Polynesians sailing from the west rather than Europeans coming from
the east.

Chicken bones excavated from an archaeological site in central
Chile have been analysed by carbon dating and by DNA profiling. One
of the bones was dated to more than 100 years before the first
Europeans arrived in South America and its DNA shows a strong
correlation with the DNA of present-day chickens living on the
inhabited islands of the Pacific Ocean." ... more

Mind you, people George F Carter has been saying much the same kind of
thing since 1971.

Lots of people have been saying similar things, what they all lacked was
evidence.

have fun


Good Heavens Uwe!

The evidence has been there for 600 years. All that stood in the way
was the ability to analyse it without DNA or C14 dating. George
Carter's arguments were well informed and logical. All that the recent
work has done is to help make things more specific.



Eric Stevens
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