Chicken Bones Suggest Polynesians Found Americas Before Columbus

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070605/sc_livescience/chickenbonessuggestpolynesiansfoundamericasbeforecolumbus

"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."

This is a closeup of a pre colombian flute reproduction made in Peru that I purchased recently from this musician from South America that imports these items.

[ Edited by: Ojaitimo 2007-06-05 11:03 ]

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That flute figure is loosely based on this stone statue in Bolivia at Tiahuanaco, made by pre-Incan people.