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Title: Investigating the Global Dispersal of Chickens in Prehistory Using Ancient Mitochondrial DNA Signatures
Contributor(s): Storey, Alice  (author); Athens, J Stephen (author); Kirch, Patrick V (author); Ladefoged, Thegn (author); McCoy, Patrick (author); Morales-Muniz, Arturo (author); Quiroz, Daniel (author); Reitz, Elizabeth (author); Robins, Judith (author); Walter, Richard (author); Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth (author); Bryant, David (author); Carson, Mike (author); Emery, Kitty (author); deFrance, Susan (author); Higham, Charles (author); Huynen, Leon (author); Intoh, Michiko (author); Jones, Sharyn (author)
Publication Date: 2012
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039171Open Access Link
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11194
Abstract: Data from morphology, linguistics, history, and archaeology have all been used to trace the dispersal of chickens from Asian domestication centers to their current global distribution. Each provides a unique perspective which can aid in the reconstruction of prehistory. This study expands on previous investigations by adding a temporal component from ancient DNA and, in some cases, direct dating of bones of individual chickens from a variety of sites in Europe, the Pacific, and the Americas. The results from the ancient DNA analyses of forty-eight archaeologically derived chicken bones provide support for archaeological hypotheses about the prehistoric human transport of chickens. Haplogroup E mtDNA signatures have been amplified from directly dated samples originating in Europe at 1000 B.P. and in the Pacific at 3000 B.P. indicating multiple prehistoric dispersals from a single Asian centre. These two dispersal pathways converged in the Americas where chickens were introduced both by Polynesians and later by Europeans. The results of this study also highlight the inappropriate application of the small stretch of D-loop, traditionally amplified for use in phylogenetic studies, to understanding discrete episodes of chicken translocation in the past. The results of this study lead to the proposal of four hypotheses which will require further scrutiny and rigorous future testing.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: PLoS One, 7(7), p. 1-11
Publisher: Public Library of Science
Place of Publication: United States of America
ISSN: 1932-6203
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 210102 Archaeological Science
210106 Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl New Zealand)
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 430101 Archaeological science
451301 Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand)
451303 Pacific Peoples artefacts
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950599 Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classified
830309 Poultry
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 100411 Poultry
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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