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Why Did The Chicken Cross the Globe?

André Carlo Colonese, Ophelie Lebrasseur

• 25 September 2015
  5pm-8.30pm

• King's Manor Marquee (map)

• FREE admission

  No booking required

• Wheelchair accessible

Event details

Why did the chicken cross the globe? Chickens today have a worldwide distribution and their diffusion is almost entirely due to human-assisted transportation. As such, their natural history is a reflection of human history.

Whilst chicken remains are ubiquitous on archaeological sites from the Late Iron Age onwards, it is unclear when chickens became a common foodstuff or how they were exploited in the past. As part of a larger project concerned with documenting human-chicken interactions, this exhibition will explore biomolecular evidence from archaeological record in UK of chicken ecology, dispersal and consumption in the past.

http://scicultchickens.org/team