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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science
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1 posted on 09/16/2009 1:07:41 PM PDT by Nikas777
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


2 posted on 09/16/2009 1:07:59 PM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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To: Nikas777
“Chickens could not have gotten to South America on their own—they had to be taken by humans,”

Soft tyranny of low expectations.

3 posted on 09/16/2009 1:08:44 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: Nikas777

A chicken with a tailwind could make it!


4 posted on 09/16/2009 1:11:11 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: Nikas777
Chickens could not have gotten to South America on their own

Supposing TWO chickens did it together with a line between them?
5 posted on 09/16/2009 1:11:25 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

What is the in-flight airspeed of an unladen Chicken?


6 posted on 09/16/2009 1:13:35 PM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: Nikas777

The native Americans were here before Columbus, so someone had to find it first.


7 posted on 09/16/2009 1:14:13 PM 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: Nikas777

Why did the chicken cross the sea? To confuse politically correct anthropologists.


8 posted on 09/16/2009 1:14:20 PM PDT by dinoparty
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
A chicken with a tailwind could make it! What was that line from WKRP? "As God is my witness I thought chickens could fly"?
9 posted on 09/16/2009 1:14:25 PM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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To: Nikas777

Polynesians associated with chicken bones. Why, that’s pure RACISM!


10 posted on 09/16/2009 1:14:26 PM PDT by Born Conservative ("I'm a fan of disruptors" - Nancy Pelosi)
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To: Hodar

African or European chicken?


11 posted on 09/16/2009 1:14:31 PM PDT by DogBarkTree (Support Sarah. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/sarahpalin?ref=nf)
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12 posted on 09/16/2009 1:14:48 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: LottieDah
The native Americans

They prefer to be called American Indians now. Native Americans is now considered Un-PC. No joke.

13 posted on 09/16/2009 1:15:38 PM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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To: Nikas777

Columbus wrote that he had read accounts of Leif Ericsonn’s trip.


14 posted on 09/16/2009 1:16:16 PM PDT by Military family member (GO Colts!!)
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To: Nikas777

Everyone (not really) found the Americas before Columbus. His was just a major milestone in history when the ‘discovery’ was used on a mass scale.


15 posted on 09/16/2009 1:16:17 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: dinoparty

LOL!


16 posted on 09/16/2009 1:16:19 PM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Not laden with a coconut, they couldn’t.


17 posted on 09/16/2009 1:16:20 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Hodar

Wild chickens aren’t much like the ones Col. Sanders raises.
They can fly just fine. It’s like the difference between a dowmestic turkey and a wild one, night and day!


18 posted on 09/16/2009 1:17:17 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: Nikas777

It was turkeys.


19 posted on 09/16/2009 1:18:22 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: Nikas777

I prefer to be called “Sir”!


20 posted on 09/16/2009 1:18:23 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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