Chicken bones show Polynesians went to Chile (Told ya so!)

Reuters ^ | 5 June 2007 | Maggie Fox

[frithguild]

So why did the chicken cross the ocean?

[DieHard the Hunter]

> So, who were they trading with? It’s perfectly compatible with Heyerdahl’s theory — that humans spread across the Pacific from South America...

Except for the inconvenient fact that there is little evidence of anybody in South America being of a seafaring sort. Unless I’ve missed something, the South Americans were land-lubbers.

As were all Amerinds, with the exception of the North-West Coast injuns, who had very much in common with the Maori: right down to the sea-faring dugout war canoes, the lodgepole houses, the aural history and the totem poles. I am unaware of any evidence that, say, the Nootka or the Salish or the Bella Coola ever met the Maori, but they would have been about the only Amerinds capable of doing so.

> — that they then traded back with ‘the old country’ which they knew was there. The chicken would have been just a novel critter they acquired in their travels...

or a tasty side-dish to be served with Roasted Inca and baked kumara.

[SunkenCiv]

The ocean never sez hello, it just waves.

[From many - one.]

Sorry but my reading indicates only that Polynesian chickens ended up in South America, not how they got there.

It could have been in either direction...S.A. to Polynesia or vice versa.

[RightWhale]

600 years ago the Chinese had trading colonies up and down the west coast of N and S America. They were newcomers even then. Trade goes back at least 3000 years.

[Grut]

Except for the inconvenient fact that there is little evidence of anybody in South America being of a seafaring sort. Unless I’ve missed something, the South Americans were land-lubbers.

Well, of course they were! All the nautical ones had moved to Polynesia by then. ;^)

[SunkenCiv]

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It could have been in either direction...S.A. to Polynesia or vice versa.

If you found a lot of chicken remains in the New World or if there were reports of chicken raising or hunting, then yes. If you only found a few remains and reports, it's likely that the chickens came from elsewhere.

"Chilenesian" may be the next big cuisine. I'm ready.