Re: Pre-columbian contact

On Jun 14, 9:38 am, Jack Linthicum <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Jun 14, 9:07 am, Melodious Thunk <thunk.melodi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Jun 13, 9:41 am, Jack Linthicum <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Jun 5, 1:42 pm, Carl <pchristain...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Chicken Bones Suggest Polynesians Found Americas Before Columbushttp://www.livescience.com/history/070604_polynesian_chicken.html

Comments, please.

Regards,
David Carl Christainsen
Newton, Mass. USA

Anyone else aware that these Araucana chickens are like show dogs, the
subject of breeders and shows around the world. And blue eggs.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucana

I dunno about the white males, but the little hen looks just like the
"feral" chickens I've seen throughout Hawaii, Guam, etc... except that
the picture doesn't do justice to the brightness of her colors.

The implications of the Wiki piece are that even the Araucana we see
today are cross breeds and not the real original article. be
interesting to see if this breed was recognized early on in the
Spanish occupation. The Araucana Indians were really bad asses and
held out much longer than the people who had been part of the Inca
"Empire".

However, they seem destined to be associated with the two breeds of
chickens that they raised.

The Araucana Indians also known as the Mapuche Indians of Chile had
two breeds of chickens which they raised. One was called the
"Collonca", which was a small bird with a very small single comb, no
tail, also known as rumpless, and laid blue eggs. The other was called
"Quetro" which was known to have a peculiar stammering crow. The
Quetro was a small bird that had tufts, a peacomb, a tail, and laid
brown eggs.

The thought just occurred to me that if the Mapuche raised two
different breeds of chickens would that suggest that both had to be
descendants from Polynesian birds? What is there now is a cross breed,
does the chicken bone in question match the DNA sequence in the new
breed and therefore represent only one of the previous breeds or does
it have sequences from both?

.

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