• DOI:10.1038/447620B
• Corpus ID: 4418786

DNA reveals how the chicken crossed the sea

@article{Borrell2007DNARH,
  title={DNA reveals how the chicken crossed the sea},
  author={Brendan Borrell},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2007},
  volume={447},
  pages={620-621}
}

• B. Borrell
• Published 6 June 2007
• History
• Nature

Nature 447, 620-621 (7 June 2007) | doi:10.1038/447620b; Published online 6 June 2007 DNA reveals how the chicken crossed the sea Brendan Borrell Abstract Ancient Polynesians may have brought birds to the Americas. The discovery of chicken bones with Polynesian DNA at an archaeological site in Chile has adde controversial theory that ancient seafarers from the south Pacific visited the New World long be When the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro first visited Peru in 1532, he noted the import and religious rituals of the Incas. But how the birds got there was a mystery. Chickens were first absence from archaeological sites in the Americas indicates that they were not carried by migrat Asia to Alaska. One alternative theory — that Polynesians visited the Americas, bringing livestock with them an technological development in the region — has long been disparaged by mainstream archaeolog by supposition rather than evidence. So Alice Storey of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, was not particularly enthusiastic wh sequence DNA from a trove of ancient chicken bones he had excavated at El Arenal, a site occup see if their origins could be traced to the Pacific islands. "I thought, 'Well, we'll give it a go'," she