Cultural History » chickens http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:08:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Polynesian Chickens In Chile http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/12/polynesian-chickens-in-chile/ http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/12/polynesian-chickens-in-chile/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:22:33 +0000 Brent http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/12/polynesian-chickens-in-chile/ Continue reading →]]> Scholars have long assumed the Spaniards first introduced chickens to the New World along with horses, pigs, and cattle. But now radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis of a chicken bone excavated from a site in Chile suggest Polynesians in oceangoing canoes brought chickens to the west coast of South America well before Europe’s “Age of Discovery.”

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