Evidence of voyaging Polynesians settling in Aotearoa more than 700 years ago. An excavation at Mangahawea Bay on Moturua Island in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand … Carbon dating puts the first inhabitants in the area around 1300AD… Much more Polynesian, Tahitian, Rarotongan.
Miraz Jordan @smokey I’m trying to educate myself about the early human history of New Zealand.
Smokey Ardisson 👍 The archaeologist or paleoanthropologist in me finds these kinds of things fascinating.
Miraz Jordan @smokey My item might not have been very clear. The first humans in New Zealand arrived round about 1250, give or take a bit. They were from East Polynesia.
Odd-Egil “Oddzthrash” Auran It’s a long way from Rarotonga to New Zealand in a small boat.
Smokey Ardisson No, your item was plenty clear…my brain, not so much ;-) It was considering all of the peopling of the earth paleoanthropology, but up to 700 years ago is a bit of a stretch ;-)