Professor
George Carter
Texas A&M University - College Station- Texas - USA
20-6-1985
Dear
Professor Carter,
I
recently received a photostat copy of an article entitled Before
Columbus which appeared originally in the Ellsworth
American and was reprinted in the ABA
Quarterly Newsletter and written by yourself in which you discussed my
writings. Thank you very much for the write up. It gave me great satisfaction
to know that the work of collecting material for my researches on the origins
of the domestic chicken does have some value.
I
have received quite an amount of feedback from my Chicken
Bone Recoveries most of it very valuable and interesting. This will also
be published hopefully later this year as a supplement to the next book of
which I am preparing the manuscript at the moment. This latest book will cover
the Gallus species or as much material as I can gather.
I
am putting forward a theory that the Bankivoids - Malays - Asiatics (Brahma,
Cochin, Langshan) are different species probably stemming from an extinct
ancestor but following different lines of descent. We need to get those
archaeologists studying the chicken bones intensely to get the answers. By the
way, what type of magazine is the Ellsworth
American you might let me know when next writing.
I
am a bit handicapped at the moment as I recently had an eye operation, which
normally is a simple operation. However mine developed a complication which
may take some time to correct itself.
I
can however still write. I’m not sure whether I told you previously that
chicken bones have been recovered in recent times by Professor Zhou around
Cishan, Northern China, dated around 5000 BC. This rather throws a lot of the
earlier information into confusion but does I think throw more light on the
subject.
Hope
you are keeping well and looking forward to hearing from you in the not too
distant future.
Sincerely
yours,