January
10, 1984
Dear
Mr Plant:
Thank
you for your recent letter. Yes, I do remember our correspondence of several
years ago and your interests in the Pekin Bantam and the domestic chicken.
In
reply to your quest for any new information about discoveries of pre-Columbian
chickens in the Americas, I am not able to help you. I rarely peruse the
literature on such geologically young
remains. Perhaps one of my colleagues in Arizona might be able to assist your
though. He is Dr Stanley L.Olsen, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State
Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85718, USA. If he can’t help
you, perhaps he can provide names of others who might.
Sincerely
yours,
John
H. Ostrom
Professor of Geology