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The Ancients

The First New Zealanders

July 23, 202656 min

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<p>What if the first New Zealanders crossed an ocean, landed in a brand-new world, and built a whole society in just a few generations?</p><p>Tristan Hughes and Dr Richard Walter tell the story of East Polynesian voyagers who reached Aotearoa around the late 1200s, bringing canoes, knowledge, and ambition from Hawaiki to a vast, forested island world.</p><p>From the moa-rich site of Wairau Bar to archeological evidence of exquisite stone tools, ornaments,…

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