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

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Storey, Alice A., Ramírez, José Miguel, Quiroz, Daniel, Burley, David V., Addison, David J., Walter, Richard, Anderson, Atholl J., Hunt, Terry L. +3 more·2007·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI 10.1073/pnas.0703993104PMC PMC1965514
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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.

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Storey, A. A., Ramírez, J. M., Quiroz, D., Burley, D. V., Addison, D. J., Walter, R., Anderson, A. J., Hunt, T. L., Athens, J. S., Huynen, L., & Matisoo-Smith, E. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Auckland (NZ)
  • University of Valparaíso (CL)
  • Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos-Proyecto Fondecyt, 1020272 Santiago, Chile;
  • Simon Fraser University (CA)
  • American Samoa Community College (AS)
  • University of Otago (NZ)
  • Australian National University (AU)
  • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
  • International Archaeological Research Institute (US)
  • Allan Wilson Centre (NZ)
ORCID
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Published
2007-06-19
Volume
104
Issue
25
Pages
10335-10339
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
DOI
10.1073/pnas.0703993104
PMC
PMC1965514
OpenAlex
W2101469307
Cited by
645
References
35
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FWCI
11.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • EPubDev Repository (submittedVersion)
  • ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
  • RUNE (Research UNE) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Keywords
chicken bone, ancient DNA, radiocarbon dating, Gallus gallus, Polynesian migration
MeSH terms
Animals, Archaeology, Base Sequence, Carbon, Carbon Radioisotopes, Chickens, Chile, DNA, DNA, Mitochondrial, Fossils, Geography, Molecular Sequence Data, Polynesia, Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sequence Analysis, DNA, History, Ancient

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