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One group of Māori settled in the Chatham Islands around 1500; they created a separate, pacifist culture and became known as the Moriori. The arrival of Europeans to New Zealand, starting in 1642 with Abel Tasman , brought enormous changes to the Māori, who were introduced to Western food, technology, weapons and culture by European settlers ...
The ancestors of the Māori first settled in New Zealand from other Polynesian islands in the late 13th century CE and developed a distinctive culture and knowledge-system. Mātauranga covers the entire time-period since then. Therefore, it includes oceanic navigation and other knowledge shared across the Polynesian world.
The Māori settlement of New Zealand represents an end-point of a long chain of island-hopping voyages in the South Pacific. No credible evidence exists of pre-Māori settlement of New Zealand ; on the other hand, compelling evidence from archaeology, linguistics, and physical anthropology indicates that the first settlers migrated from ...
Māori cultural history intertwines inextricably with the culture of Polynesia as a whole. The New Zealand archipelago forms the southwestern corner of the Polynesian Triangle, a major part of the Pacific Ocean with three island groups at its corners: the Hawaiian Islands, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and New Zealand (Aotearoa in te reo Māori). [10]
To escape punishment for the murder, Kupe and Kura fled in Matahourua and discovered a land he called Aotearoa ('land of the long-white-cloud'). He explored its coast and killed the sea monster Te Wheke-a-Muturangi, finally returning to his home to spread the news of his newly discovered land. [1]
Ortoiroid peoples settled on St. Kitts from 2000 BC to 400 BC. [8] The shell midden deposits of Banwari Trace and St. John, have been dated between 6000 and 5100 BC. These deposits, consisting of discarded shells, bone tools, and stone tools, represent extended use of crustaceans as a food source, as well as the use of stone and bone tools by ...
Terraces on Maungawhau / Mount Eden, marking the sites of the defensive palisades and ditches of this former pā. The word pā (Māori pronunciation:; often spelled pa in English) can refer to any Māori village or defensive settlement, but often refers to hillforts – fortified settlements with palisades and defensive terraces – and also to fortified villages.
Aotearoa (Māori: [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) [1] is the Māori-language name for New Zealand.The name was originally used by Māori in reference only to the North Island, with the whole country being referred to as Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu – where Te Ika-a-Māui means North Island, and Te Waipounamu means South Island. [2]