Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
The origins of the first New Zealanders
Contributor/Publisher
Auckland University Press
Place
Date
Circa 1993
Physical Description
xv, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN/ISSN
1869400984
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
Foreword / Hugh Kawharu
Preface / Douglas G. Sutton
1. Changes over time - recent advances in dating human colonisation of the Pacific Basin area / Roger C. Green
2. Experimental voyaging and Maori settlement / Ben Finney
3. The likelihood of multiple settlement in Eastern Polynesia - a stochastic model / R. Garry Law
4. Does Maori have a closest relative? / Bruce Biggs
5. Maori dialectology and the settlement of New Zealand / Ray Harlow
6. Moriori and Maori: the linguistic evidence / Ross Clark
7. An ecological approach to the Polynesian settlement of New Zealand / M. S. McGlone, A. J. Anderson and R. N. Holdaway
8. Late Holocene hstories of climate, geomorphology and vegetation, and their effects on the first New Zealand / Patrick J. Grant
9. Coastal stratigraphic evidence for human settlement / Bruce G. McFadgen
10. The Eastern Polynesian origins of the New Zealand archaic / Janet Davidson
11. The Cook Islands-New Zealand connection / Richard Walter
12. Biological affinity between Southern Cook Islanders and New Zealand Maori: implications for the settlement of New Zealand / Kazumichi Katayama
13. Conclusion: origins / Douglas G. Sutton.
Public Access Text
Papers originally presented at a conference on the origins of the first New Zealanders, held at the University of Auckland in May 1988
Collection Type
Reading Room
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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