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Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 1, 2023 4:14:11 GMT 12
MĀORI INHABITANTS ON ENDERBY FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTSEvidence gathered from a recent combined archaeological trip, run by the University of Auckland, Ngāi Tahu and the University of Canterbury, to the sub-Antarctic island of Enderby (in the Auckland Islands) could confirm not only an earlier Māori arrival date in this country but also any extended and later occupations. A team of 12 spent just under two weeks in April on the island, 460 kilometres from Bluff, looking for evidence of early human interactions with the landscape. It follows previous research 20 years ago done by Ngāi Tahu archaeologist Professor Athol Anderson, who found Māori had been on Enderby, and lived off the bird and marine mammal life from as early as 1400CE..... www.teaomaori.news/maori-inhabitants-on-enderby-found-archaeologists
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