By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 04:08:54 +0000

A very interesting article. The fascinating part is the large number of adze heads for a smallish village and the fact the rock material came from so far away. It suggests there were other early Polynesian colonial sites with considerable number of people. This gels with the finding that about 60 women and perhaps 200? or more men made up the original colonists. At 20 odd sailors per waka, this makes up a considerable fleet of around 12 boats. There seems to have been at least 4 settler nodes -Otago coast, Wairau Bar “island”, Paliser Bay and Opito Bay area. I hope large quantities of DNA material were taken from the marrow before the bones were reburied

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By: Mike