Cluck that!
Posted on 06/04/2007 6:55:26 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
First Chickens in Americas Were Brought From Polynesia
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Why did the chicken cross the Pacific Ocean? To get to the other side, in South America. How? By Polynesian canoes, which apparently arrived at least 100 years before Europeans settled the continent.
That is the conclusion of an international research team, which reported yesterday that it had found “the first unequivocal evidence for a pre-European introduction of chickens to South America,” or presumably anywhere in the New World.
The researchers said that bones buried on the South American coast were from chickens that lived between 1304 and 1424. Pottery at the site was from a similar or earlier time. A DNA analysis linked the bones, which were excavated at El Arenal on the Arauco Peninsula in south central Chile, to chickens from Polynesian islands.
The findings are being published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The lead author is Alice A. Storey, an anthropologist at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and other team members are from American Samoa, Australia, Canada and the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
So how come the Polynisians aren’t being blamed for bringing disease and death to the “Native-Americans”?
Heck, they probably introduced bird flu.
That’s a damn long way in a canoe. It would have taken months. Their water supplies couldn’t have lasted that long. I’m sure they had lots of chickens to eat on the way but how in the world did they make it that far?
I figger the Big Kanuna would’ve been promising a chicken in every dug out...???
I thought everybody knew the chicken crossed to road to avoid the bullies.
Didn’t work, though, since they had already seen him, so chased him down, and plucked him anyway.
Cluck that!
Nonsense. They're native, here's a footprint of one of them.
Tom Ka Gai, to suppliment the Tom Yam Pla.
Take one large war canoe...
First, fill one outrigger with green, milk-filled coconuts; and place cages with chickens, ginger root, kafir lime leaves, dried galangal root, and lemongrass along with luggage in other outrigger.
Fill main section of canoe with warriors, weapons, and paddles.
When tired of coconut-ginger-fish soup (Tom Yam Pla) or if flying fish refuse to land in canoe, wring chicken’s neck, and make coconut-ginger-chicken soup.
Some people have pointed out interesting cultural parallels between the Mapuche of southern Chile and Polynesian culture. In many cases of people grasping for cultural similarities, it’s just naive diffusionism. But there are some intriguing facts (well, speculations) pointed out in this Spanish article:
http://www.rapanuivalparaiso.cl/arque_olog.htm#ar5
oh boy...another first to strip from those nasty Europeans
LOL, sounds like we’ve got an canoe expert, polynesian chef, and survivalist all rolled into one.
This is a fowl thread.
Polynesians Beat Columbus To The Americas
New Scientist | 6-4-2007 | Emma Young
Posted on 06/04/2007 8:58:20 PM EDT by blam
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