Kon TikiChicken bones found in Chile support the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s theory that there was a maritime connection across the ocean between America and Polynesia, and puts an end to the current belief that chickens were brought to America by Europeans.
Christopher Columbus came to America in 1492, long after the first chickens came to Chile according to the new evidence. The chicken bones that were found are the remains from chickens living between 1304 and 1424, which suggests that there must have been a maritime route from Polynesia to Chile, as Heyerdahl stated after his journey with the Kon Tiki raft in 1947.
The trade route may have made it possible for the Polynesians to sail to America in canoes, or for the Americans to sail to Polynesia. Somehow the chickens made their way across and settled on American land.
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