The First Migration: Māori Origins 3000BC – AD1450Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson’s ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand’s first human inhabitants. Taken from the multi-award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History this Text weaves together evidence from numerous sources: oral traditions, archaeology, genetics, linguistics, ethnography, historical observations, palaeoecology, climate change and more. The result is to people the ancient past: to offer readers a sense of the lives of Māori ancestors as they voyaged through centuries toward the South Pacific. |
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| Title | The First Migration: Māori Origins 3000BC – AD1450 Volume 44 of BWB Texts |
| Author | Atholl Anderson |
| Publisher | Bridget Williams Books, 2016 |
| ISBN | 0947492801, 9780947492809 |
| Length | 164 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Australia & New Zealand Social Science / Archaeology |
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