ICYMI: Ancestral Puebloans domesticated turkeys more than 1,500 years before the first Thanksgiving.
The Ancestral Pueblo people once raised wild Merriam’s turkeys alongside domesticated species. Across America, families are likely squirreling away turkeys into chest freezers for Thanksgiving. But earlier this month, Butterball CEO Jay Jandrainof small birds during the holiday season. This threatens the long tradition of Thanksgiving turkey, which has nebulous origins in early colonial New England.
“I can visualize the blanket-maker calming a familiar household-raised turkey so it could be held in that person’s lap while some of its mature body feathers were carefully and painlessly removed for use in the blanket,” William Lipe, a Southwestern archaeologist and professor emeritus at Washington State University, says.
The Pueblo people used turkey eggs to make paint and turkey bones to fashion tools and whistles. The birds were kept inThey also roamed free around villages. At the time, the Pueblo people did not seem interested in eating their feathered cohabitants. Though closely related, the turkey on your Thanksgiving table does not descend from either lineage. When Spanish conquistadors invaded southern Mexico, they were enamored with a. They brought the animals back with them, and they became a popular holiday meal throughout Europe. Later, the breed was brought back to the U.S. and raised on farms from coast to coast.
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