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The First Migration

Atholl Anderson

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Synopsis

Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson’s ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand’s first human inhabitants.

Taken from the multi-award-winning Tangata An Illustrated History this Text weaves together evidence from numerous oral traditions, archaeology, genetics, linguistics, ethnography, historical observations, palaeoecology, climate change and more. The result is to people the ancient to offer readers a sense of the lives of Māori ancestors as they voyaged through centuries toward the South Pacific.

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