Prof
Stanley J. Olsen - Dept of Anthropology
University of Arizona - Tucson
5-8-1985
Dear
Professor Olsen,
Last
year I sent you a copy of book 2 Chicken
bone recoveries part of the series. I am writing and publishing on
the Origin, evolution, history and
distribution of the domestic fowl. I hope you received it in good order. I
haven’t received any reply from you regarding it and thought possibly you
may have been away on further expeditions as I know this does occur with you.
If
you have received the book OK, any comments you may care to make would be
appreciated. Also you may have further information relevant to my subject that
has come to hand since I last heard from you.
I
have now almost completed the manuscript for the next book in the series
entitled The Gallus species and hope to publish it before the end of 1985.
This book will also include a supplement covering the further information I
have obtained in feedback from the Chicken
Bone book some of which is quite startling.
Of
recent times I have been corresponding with Mrs Sally Rodwell of Cambridge,
England, now domiciled in Hong Kong, who did a paper analysing the work of
Professor Zhou Ben Xiang around Cishan in Northern China. I have also obtained
a copy of Professor Zhou’s paper Amongst
animals etc quite on amount of chicken bone was recovered. This material
is dated around 5000 BC!
This
predates other earlier recoveries so it will probably need some reassessing of
the earlier writings on the subject.
You
are probably aware of this information. I will be including it in the
supplement of this next book as I feel it is most important material.
I
have been most encouraged by the feedback I received from the Chicken
bone book for I always felt there was much more information around than
what I had been able to collect. This has proved correct.
Hoping
you are keeping well and hope to hear from you in the not too distant future.
Sincerely
yours,