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> the Maori arrived, in the thirteenth century Is the reason there's no inhabitants in NZ who arrived before 1300 AD because earthquakes and volcanos killed th
by vorg 10y ago
> the Maori arrived, in the thirteenth century
Is the reason there's no inhabitants in NZ who arrived before 1300 AD because earthquakes and volcanos killed them all off? That big mountain island in the sea just off Auckland called Rangitoto only popped up about 600 years ago and its Maori name means "Bleeding into the Sky" so I guess they saw it all.
- civilian 10y agoNo, the Polynesian colonization of the pacific islands just happened pretty late in history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesia#History_of_the_Polynesian_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesia#History_of_the_Polyn...
- Taniwha 10y agoYes NZ was just about the last place on the planet discovered and settled by humans. That's partly because the Polynesian settling of the Pacific was done from Taiwan across the north to the Americas and then back across the south
- civilian 10y ago"to the Americas" -- do we have proof that they made it to the Americas? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140318-polynesian-chickens-pacific-migration-america-science/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140318-polyn...
- vorg 10y agoMaybe he meant Hawaii (now part of U.S., North America) and Easter Island (now part of Chile, South America)!
- Taniwha 10y agoThey brought kumara, a sweet potato, back to NZ with them from the Americas. There's also possible evidence they brought chickens to Chile, and I believe some evidence of Polynesian canoe designs showing up in California