New England Antiquities Research Association

First Chickens in Americas Were Brought From Polynesia

Ros Strong

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June 5, 2007

John Noble Wilford's piece in today's New York Times presents the "conclusion of an international research team, which reported yesterday that it had found 'the first unequivocal evidence for a pre-European introduction of chickens to South America,' or presumably anywhere in the New World".

Chickens in America  before Columbus! What a pity Professor George Carter died in 2004 before his long-held theory could be vindicated.  For many years he believed that plant and animal forms would provide the best evidence for trans-oceanic contact. He was one of the lead presenters at NEARA's Across  Before Columbus Conference held at Brown University in 1992. The text, published in 1998, The Chicken in America: Spanish Introduction or Pre-Spanish? makes the same argument as that now  given at a scientific meeting.

Link to New York Times article

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