Pre-Māori settlement of New Zealand theories
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pre-m-ori-settlement-of-new-zealand-theories-182-16506019
title:
Pre-Māori settlement of New Zealand theories
text:
Since the early 1900s the fact that Polynesians were the first humans to settle in New Zealand has been accepted by archaeologists and anthropologists. Before that time and until the 1920s, however, a small group of prominent anthropologists proposed that the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands represented a pre-Māori group of people from Melanesia, who once lived across all of New Zealand and were replaced by the Māori. While this claim was soon disproven by academics, it was widely and contr
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Pseudohistorical theories of New Zealand settlemsnt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-M%C4%81ori_settlement_of_New_Zealand_theories
date created:
2013-01-27T21:45:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T21:10:15Z
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