Pre-Columbian chickens, dates, isotopes, and mtDNA

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Authors

Alice A. Storey · University of Auckland

Daniel Quiróz

José Miguel Ramírez · University of Valparaíso

Nancy Beavan · GNS Science

David Addison · American Samoa Community College

Richard Walter · University of Otago

Terry L. Hunt · University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Abstract

Recently Gongora et al. ( 1) stated that their analyses of chicken mtDNA and potential offsets for dietary marine carbon cast doubt on "claims for pre-Columbian chickens" in the Americas. We present additional data supporting the interpretation of Storey et al. ( 2) showing that evidence for pre-Columbian chickens at the site of El Arenal, Chile, is secure.

Topics & Keywords

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Isotope Analysis in Ecology

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Life below water

Publication Details

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Volume 105, Issue 48, pp. E99; author reply E100-E99; author reply E100

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807625105

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