At some stage, about 4000 years ago, a canoe load of adventurous “Lapita” sailors either deliberately set out to the east or were driven...

Merry Christmas I was thinking about the perforated tooth I found in the far north many years ago, associated with a burial that was...

Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen came from a landowning family of Baltic Germans with a tradition of service to the Russian...

All the official evidence is that Polynesians got to NZ first. Most artifacts shown in museums seem to support this and it is very clear...

Imagine what a LiDAR survey of the entire country could reveal. Especially in Kaiatia, the Waikato coastline, parts of the Taranaki...

Colyers Island exists in the Bluff harbour and was a primary source of argillite for adze manufacture from 1300 -1500. There are several...

Chartered in 1602 and granted a monopoly over trade with the East Indies by the Dutch government, the Dutch East India Company (VOC)...

Stone Age - Origin of the Term and Definition The Stone Age was first defined in the 19th century by Christian Jurgensen Thomsen as the...

Papua New Guinea being a country with approximately 850 languages. They have so many languages as they very rarely mixed or interberd,...

Do not think that the Polynesians who arrived in the Tainui came to an unoccupied land. The evidence is everywhere, but more importantly,...