Kōrero: Ideas in New Zealand

Map of moa hunter encampment

This map appeared in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute in 1871. It accompanied a paper by Julius Haast, director of the Canterbury Museum, who had found flint implements along with moa bones at the mouth of the Rakaia River two years before. In the paper Haast argued that these findings suggested that there had been an ancient Palaeolithic people, the moa-hunters, who had preceded the Māori. The theory was not widely accepted and indeed became rapidly discredited.

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Royal Society of New Zealand
Reference: Julius Haast. 'Moas and Moa Hunters: address to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury'. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 4 (1871): 74

Permission of the Royal Society of New Zealand must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Jock Phillips, 'Ideas in New Zealand - Darwinism and anthropology', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/45471/map-of-moa-hunter-encampment (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 22 Oct 2014