Sentences with phrase «gallopavo bones»

Meleagris gallopavo bones have been found from about as early as 800 B.C.E., not 8250 B.C.E.

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One established center of turkey domestication was central Mexico, where the bones of Meleagris gallopavo — ancestors of the turkeys we eat today — have been found from as early as about 800 B.C.E. alongside ancient turkey pens and fossilized poop containing traces of corn, suggesting the birds were kept and fed.