Editing Chicken (section)

=== Austronesia ===

[[File:Map showing prehistoric diffusion of domestic chickens (Gallus gallus) into the Pacific via the Austronesian migrations (Thomson, Lebrasseur, & Austin, 2014).png|thumb|upright=2|Prehistoric introduction of domesticated chickens into [[Oceania]] from the [[Philippines]] via [[Neolithic]] [[Austronesian expansion]] (starting at c. 4000 [[Before present|BP]]), inferred from genetic markers on ancient and modern chicken DNA (Thomson ''et al.'', 2014)<ref name="Thomson"/>]]

A word for the domestic chicken (''*manuk'') is part of the reconstructed [[Proto-Austronesian language]], indicating they were [[Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia|domesticated]] by the [[Austronesian peoples]] since ancient times. Chickens, together with dogs and pigs, were carried throughout the entire range of the prehistoric Austronesian maritime migrations to [[Island Southeast Asia]], [[Micronesia]], [[Island Melanesia]], [[Polynesia]], and [[Madagascar]], starting from at least 3000&nbsp;BC from [[Indigenous Taiwanese|Taiwan]].<ref name= Thomson>{{cite journal |last=Thomson |first=Vicki A. |others= et al. |title=Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=April 2014 |volume=111 |issue=13 |pages=4826–4831 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1320412111 |pmid=24639505 |pmc=3977275 |bibcode=2014PNAS..111.4826T |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name= Piper>{{cite book |first1=Philip J. |last1=Piper |editor1-first=Philip J. |editor1-last=Piper |editor2-first=Hirofumi |editor2-last=Matsumura |editor3-first=David |editor3-last=Bulbeck |title=New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory |chapter=The Origins and Arrival of the Earliest Domestic Animals in Mainland and Island Southeast Asia: A Developing Story of Complexity |publisher=[[ANU Press]] |volume=45 |series=terra australis |year=2017 |isbn=9781760460945 |chapter-url =http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n2320/html/ch15.xhtml |access-date =May 5, 2023 |archive-date =November 28, 2022 |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20221128075413/https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n2320/html/ch15.xhtml |url-status =live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJ9ULYwX3zgC&pg=PA56 |title=The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders |first=Malama |last=Meleisea |date=March 25, 2004 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |page=56 |access-date=March 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913140948/https://books.google.com/books?id=FJ9ULYwX3zgC&pg=PA56 |archive-date=September 13, 2016 |url-status=live |isbn=9780521003544}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tlSspaBLkhoC&pg=PA411 |title=Anthropological Genetics: Theory, Methods and Applications |first=Michael H. |last=Crawford |date=March 13, 2019 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |page=411 |access-date=March 13, 2019 |via=Google Books |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913143140/https://books.google.com/books?id=tlSspaBLkhoC&pg=PA411 |archive-date=September 13, 2016 |url-status=live |isbn=9780521546973}}</ref> These chickens may have been introduced during [[pre-Columbian]] times to [[South America]] via [[Polynesians|Polynesian]] seafarers, but this is disputed.<ref name= Neumann>{{cite news |last=Neumann |first=Scott |title=Study: The Chicken Didn't Cross The Pacific To South America |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/03/18/291182073/study-the-chicken-didnt-cross-the-pacific-to-south-america |access-date=May 5, 2023 |work=The Two Way |agency=NPR |date=March 18, 2014 |archive-date=May 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505060006/https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/03/18/291182073/study-the-chicken-didnt-cross-the-pacific-to-south-america |url-status=live }}</ref>