Reply to Storey et al.: more DNA and dating studies needed for ancient El Arenal-1 chickens

Gongora, Jaime, Rawlence, Nicholas J., Mobegi, Victor A., Jianlin, Han, Alcalde, Jose A., Matus, Jose T., Hanotte, Olivier, Moran, Chris, Austin, Jeremy J., Ulm, Sean, Anderson, Atholl J., Larson, Greger, and Cooper, Alan (2008) Reply to Storey et al.: more DNA and dating studies needed for ancient El Arenal-1 chickens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105 (48). E100-E100.

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In their letter, Storey et al. (1) concede that there is no direct genetic support for Polynesian–South American contact. However, they claim that linguistic, archaeological, and ethnohistoric evidence supports Polynesia as the most likely source of the El Arenal-1 chickens. We disagree on two grounds. First, such indirect evidence is conjectural, documents no eastward expansion to South America, and says nothing about the prehistoric availability of particular mtDNA haplotypes. Second, our central point was that analyses of all available ancient (2) and modern chicken mtDNA data reveal that the El Arenal-1 chicken carries a worldwide genetic signature potentially available to any of the possible introduction routes via Europe, Asia, and Polynesia (3). In contrast, none of the unusual genetic signatures from Easter Island chickens have been reported from South America (3).

Item ID: 17200
Item Type: Article (Commentary)
ISSN: 1091-6490
Date Deposited: 18 Oct 2011 06:22
FoR Codes: 21 HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 2101 Archaeology > 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas @ 40%
21 HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 2101 Archaeology > 210102 Archaeological Science @ 30%
21 HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 2101 Archaeology > 210106 Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl New Zealand) @ 30%
SEO Codes: 95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9505 Understanding Past Societies > 950506 Understanding the Past of the Americas @ 100%
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