Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 22, 2017 16:14:02 GMT 12
CLIMATE CHANGE FEAR FOR BURIAL SITES
Climate change could be affecting sacred Māori burial sites, iwi and a Department of Conservation historic adviser fear.
Erosion within the Waimea Inlet in Nelson has recently revealed human bones.
Local iwi said a human jawbone found recently in the Nelson inlet, followed soon after by the discovery of a legbone in the tidal zone below a sandbank, most likely belonged to a member of one of the many tribes who once inhabited the area.....
www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/322839/climate-change-fear-for-burial-sites
Climate change could be affecting sacred Māori burial sites, iwi and a Department of Conservation historic adviser fear.
Erosion within the Waimea Inlet in Nelson has recently revealed human bones.
Local iwi said a human jawbone found recently in the Nelson inlet, followed soon after by the discovery of a legbone in the tidal zone below a sandbank, most likely belonged to a member of one of the many tribes who once inhabited the area.....
www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/322839/climate-change-fear-for-burial-sites