Chicken Bones Suggest Polynesians Found Americas Before Columbus

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LiveScience | 2007-06-04

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Popular history, and a familiar rhyme about Christopher Columbus, holds that Europeans made contact with the Americas in 1492, with some arguing that the explorer and his crew were the first outsiders to reach the New World. But chicken bones recently unearthed on the coast of Chile?dating prior to Columbus? ?discovery? of America and resembling the DNA of a fowl species native to Polynesia?may challenge that notion, researchers say.

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