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  1. en.wikipedia.org

    Ethnographers Elsdon Best and Percy Smith, the two most prominent academic proponents of pre-Māori settlement. [31]Julius von Haast suggested in 1871 that an early Polynesian people who hunted the moa preceded the Māori, who introduced agriculture and lived in small villages. [3] [32] Ideas about Aryan migrations became popular during the 19th century, and these were applied to New Zealand.
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  3. Jun 17, 2024The claim that the Moriori, Patupaiarehe, Waitaha and "Marungarunga" peoples arrived in New Zealand before the Maori people is false. Experts told AAP FactCheck that scientific, archaeological and social evidence demonstrates that Maori were the first to reach NZ in about 1300.
  4. en.wikipedia.org

    The human history of New Zealand can be dated back to between 1320 and 1350 CE, when the main settlement period started, after it was discovered and settled by Polynesians, who developed a distinct Māori culture.Like other Pacific cultures, Māori society was centred on kinship links and connection with the land but, unlike them, it was adapted to a cool, temperate environment rather than a ...
  5. newzealandwithlove.com

    Sep 23, 2024The first humans coming to New Zealand were part of a massive wave of Polynesian people from East Polynesia in the 13th to 15th centuries, with some claims going earlier. The settlers established the nation of Māori, who have become the indigenous people of New Zealand.
  6. newzealandwithlove.com

    The first people documented to live in New Zealand prior to the arrival of the Maori were the Moriori. Descendants of Māori settlers, the Moriori originated from the same Polynesian culture as the Māori but, as a result of generations of isolation, developed their own distinct culture and language.
  7. britannica.com

    Nov 18, 2024No precise archaeological records exist of when and from where the first human inhabitants of New Zealand came, but it is generally agreed that Polynesians from eastern Polynesia in the central Pacific reached New Zealand in the early 13th century. There has been much speculation on how these people made the long ocean voyage. People from Polynesia are known to have sometimes set sail in ...
  8. teara.govt.nz

    Discovery and migration. New Zealand has a shorter human history than almost any other country. The date of first settlement is a matter of debate, but current understanding is that the first arrivals came from East Polynesia between 1250 and 1300 CE. It was not until 1642 that Europeans became aware the country existed.. The original Polynesian settlers discovered the country on deliberate ...
  9. teara.govt.nz

    By studying these remains, archaeologists are able to estimate when the first settlers arrived. One of the main methods they use is radiocarbon dating, which measures the age of bones and wood. There is a lot of evidence that Polynesian people first arrived in New Zealand around 1250-1300 CE, coming from East Polynesia in canoes.
  10. newzealand.com

    According to the people of Ngāpuhi (tribe of the Far North), the first explorer to reach New Zealand was the intrepid ancestor, Kupe. Using the stars and ocean currents as his navigational guides, he ventured across the Pacific on his waka hourua (voyaging canoe) from his ancestral Polynesian homeland of Hawaiki.
  11. worldpopulationreview.com

    The first people to arrive on New Zealand were of Polynesian descent. They are believed to have arrived on the island between 1330 and 1350 AD, but the exact timing is difficult to determine. They likely developed their own distinct culture around this time as well, and other explorers who have arrived since that time have chronicled everything ...
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    Pre-Māori settlement of New Zealand theories

    Since the early 1900s it has been accepted by archaeologists and anthropologists that Polynesians were the first ethnic group to settle in New Zealand. 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 incorporated into school textbooks during the 20th century, most notably in the School Journal. This theory has been followed by modern claims of a pre-Māori settlement of New Zealand by various ethnic groups. Today, such theories are considered to be pseudohistorical and negationist by scholars and historians. In recent times, a greater variety of speculation of New Zealand's first settlers has occurred outside of academia. Wikipedia

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