Radiocarbon and DNA evidence for a pre-Columbian introduction of Polynesian chickens to Chile

Alice A Storey; Jose Miguel Ramirez; Daniel Quiroz; David Burley; David J Addison; Richard Walter; Atholl Anderson; Terry L Hunt; J. Stephen Athens; Leon Huynen; Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith

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Radiocarbon and DNA evidence for a pre-Columbian introduction of Polynesian chickens to Chile

Alice A Storey, Jose Miguel Ramirez, Daniel Quiroz, David Burley, David J Addison, Richard Walter, Atholl Anderson, Terry L Hunt, J. Stephen Athens, Leon Huynen, Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith

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Two issues long debated among Pacific and American prehistorians are (i) whether there was a pre-Columbian introduction of chicken (Gallus gallus) to the Americas and (ii) whether Polynesian contact with South America might be identified archaeologically, through the recovery of remains of unquestionable Polynesian origin. We present a radiocarbon date and an ancient DNA sequence from a single chicken bone recovered from the archaeological site of El Arenal-1, on the Arauco Peninsula, Chile. These results not only provide firm evidence for the pre-Columbian introduction of chickens to the Americas, but strongly suggest that it was a Polynesian introduction.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	10335-10339
Journal	PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	104
Issue number	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0703993104
Publication status	Published - 2007

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Storey, A. A., Ramirez, J. M., Quiroz, D., Burley, D., Addison, D. J., Walter, R., Anderson, A., Hunt, T. L., Athens, J. S., Huynen, L., & Matisoo-Smith, E. (2007). Radiocarbon and DNA evidence for a pre-Columbian introduction of Polynesian chickens to Chile. PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104(25), 10335-10339. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0703993104

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Radiocarbon and DNA evidence for a pre-Columbian introduction of Polynesian chickens to Chile

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