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Kōrero: Nōnahea a Aotearoa nōhia tuatahitia ai?

Ngā whakaahua, ngā rauemi katoa

Mai i te whārangi 1 - Tautohe mō te wā tae mai te tangata ki Aotearoa

Pacific migrations

Ngā heke i Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa

Double-hulled canoe, Tonga, 1790s

Waka hourua i Tonga, tekau tau atu i 1790

Types of evidence for dating New Zealand settlement

Ngā momo taunakitanga hei whakatau i te wā nōhia ai a Aotearoa

Mai i te whārangi 2 - Ngā aromātai mā ngā tātai whakapapa

Kupe’s Sails

Ngā Rā o Kupe

Percy Smith’s genealogical dating

Te raweke whakapapa a Percy Smith

Carved post, Arataki visitor centre

Pou whakairo ki te pokapū whakatau manuhiri o Arataki

Mai i te whārangi 3 - Te tikanga radiocarbon dating

Accelerator mass spectrometer, Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory

Accelerator mass spectrometer, Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory

Waikato Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory

Taiwhanga pūtaiao radiocarbon i Waikato

The Taupō and Kaharoa ash layers

Ngā paparanga ngarehu o Taupō me Kaharoa

The stepping-stone islands

Ngā moutere hūpeke

Pou whenua, Raoul Island

Pou whenua i te moutere o Raoul

Wairau Bar, Marlborough

Mai i te whārangi 4 - Te tātari hae – pollen

Analysis of pollen from Travis Swamp, Christchurch

Hae nō te repo o Travis (Travis Swamp) i Ōtautahi

A magnified bracken spore

Tētahi pua atua (spore) rarauhe kua whakakaitātia

Mai i te whārangi 5 - Ngā poroiwi kiore

The Pacific rat

Te kiore (Pacific rat)

Modern Pacific rat bones

Ngā wheua o te kiore (Pacific rat)

Archaeologist Bruce McFadgen

Te kaimātai whaipara tangata a Bruce McFadgen

Mai i te whārangi 6 - Te DNA o te kiore

Mummified rats, Pompallier House, Russell

Whakapakoko kiore kei te whare o Pompallier i Kororāreka (Russell)

Computer model of a voyage

He tauira rorohiko o tētahi heke

Gnawed snail shells

Ngā anga ngata (snail shell) kua kainga timotimotia

Gnawed seed

Kākano kua kainga timotimotia e te kiore

Mai i te whārangi 7 - Ka mate ā-moa, ka paheke

Moa bones

The adzebill (Aptornis)

Te adzebill (Aptornis)

‘The inside of a hippah, in New Zealand’

‘The inside of a hippah, in New Zealand’

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārangi:

Geoff Irwin and Carl Walrond, 'Ngā whakaahua, ngā rauemi katoa', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/nonahea-a-aotearoa-nohia-tuatahitia-ai/media (accessed 3 June 2023)

He kōrero nā Geoff Irwin and Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 8 Feb 2005, updated 1 May 2016