Chicken Bones Suggest Polynesians Found Americas Before Columbus

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"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."

http://www.livescience.com/history/070604_polynesian_chicken.html

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