Research Catalog

Title

The Origins of the first New Zealanders / edited by Douglas G. Sutton.

Publication

Auckland : Auckland University Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sutton, Doug G.

Description

xv, 269 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

A multi-disciplinary account of New Zealand's early history.

Subject

• To 1840
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Origin
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Migrations
• Māori (New Zealand people) > History
• Navigation, Prehistoric > Polynesia
• Māori language > History
• Maori (New Zealand people) > History
• New Zealand > Discovery and exploration
• New Zealand > Antiquities
• New Zealand > History > To 1840

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Changes over time - recent advances in dating human colonisation of the Pacific Basin area / Roger C. Green -- Experimental voyaging and Maori settlement / Ben Finney -- The likelihood of multiple settlement in eastern Polynesia / R. Garry Law -- Does Maori have a closest relative? / Bruce Biggs -- Maori dialectology and the settlement of New Zealand / Ray Harlow -- Moriori and Maori / Ross Clark -- An ecological approach to the Polynesian settlement of New Zealand / M. S. McGlone, A. J. Anderson, R. N. Holdaway -- Late Holocene histories of climate, geomorphology and vegetation, and their effects on the first New Zealanders / Patrick J. Grant -- Coastal stratigraphic evidence for human settlement / Bruce G. McFadgen -- The eastern Polynesian origins of the New Zealand Archaic / Janet Davidson -- The Cook Islands - New Zealand connection / Richard Walter -- Biological affinity between southern Cook Islanders and New Zealand Maori / Kazumichi Katayama.

ISBN

1869400984

LCCN

^^^94152913^

OCLC

• 30805483
• SCSB-12245086

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library