In the search to find the rumoured skeletons of a tall race that existed here long before Maori were ejected from their homeland for...

This bowl was found 1.5m underground in Tauranga in the 1890's on a slope of Maungatawa. Yes, 1.5m underground in fern country....

At the centre of maori culture and religion were the gods; the Atua. In Māori belief the natural and supernatural worlds were one – there...

King Kamehameha 1 was a chief who took control of all the islands of Hawaii by conquest. Let's make this clear, the unification of Hawaii...

This was found in Southland. Maori? Not at all. Waitaha? Well, they attribute it to that. No spirals, just concentric circles Maori do...

No one was here when Maori arrived around 1280 (well some say around 1280), others say more progressively. Where did they come from? They...

No, this is not on the Pouto Peninsula, but the Pouto Stream at Lake Rotoaira below Lake Taupo. This story centred around the Tongariro...

So if the people who built the Moai migrated across the Pacific from Tahiti and the Marquesas and considering the distances involved and...

A BIOLOGICAL REVIEW OF THE PREHISTORIC RAPANUI PATRICK M. CHAPMAN University of Otago There is a wide range of speculation on alternative...

Most Rei Puta were found in Northland. They say the Rei Puta was an early design and developed in Polynesia. But where in Polynesia? I...