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,...

Most of you in NZ reading this will have no idea what and where the above two caves are. But some will. It’s the location in Illinois...

And yes - by ancient we do mean 'pre-Maori'. While many will naturally frown at that statement and roll their eyes, we will give a brief...

John Haywood - 1823. The length and dimensions of the skeletons which are found in East and West Tennessee, prove demonstratively, that...

The divide in cultures and the understanding between cultures can be vast. This is no more evident that how European and Maori understood...

Short answer - quite likely. There was much exploration from various European countries at that time and many who many have arrived here...