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into the 'Classic' Māori culture. This negated the need for pre-Māori settlement in models of prehistoric New Zealand. Since this time archeology has become a more professional and scientifically rigorous practice and the model of Polynesians arriving in an uninhabited New Zealand and adapting to its
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Some conspiracy theorists have continued to speculate that what is now New Zealand was discovered by Melanesians, Celts, Greeks, Egyptians or the Chinese, before the arrival of the Polynesian ancestors of the Māori. Some of these ideas have also been supported by politicians and media personalities.
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In recent times, a greater variety of speculation of New Zealand's first settlers has occurred outside of academia. These ideas typically incorporate aspects of conspiracy theories as they are in opposition to the last 100 years of academic research. The common acceptance of these unsubstantiated
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from the late 19th century also theorised about pre-Māori settlement. Their work inspired theories that the Māori had displaced a more primitive pre-Māori population of Moriori, in mainland New Zealand – and that the Chatham Island Moriori were the last remnant of this earlier race.
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called them "wild speculation" that has been "thoroughly disposed of by academic specialists". Another historian, Vincent O'Malley, and the New Zealand Archaeological Association regard the theories as having a racist or at least a political element, seeking to cast doubt on
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has clarified of the origin and dates of the earliest migrations, establishing firmly that Māori were the first people to settle New Zealand, in line with Māori oral history. As far back as the 19th century, any claim to the contrary has been considered to be
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claims until the 1960s that the Moriori were the actual indigenous people of New Zealand, but had been violently replaced and exiled by Māori. The "Moriori myth" has spawned multiple other
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by digging up the many lakes and waterways and filling them with fish. He brought with him the ancestors of the groups Te Kāhui Tipua, Te Kāhui Roko, and Te Kāhui Waitaha. According to Sir
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suggests might be a way to say he 'discovered' the island out of the blue, though the rest of the myth is very fanciful in saying parts of his canoe became different areas of both islands.
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colonisation of New Zealand, there is not a shred of evidence that the first human settlers were anything other than Polynesian", and Richard Hill, professor of New Zealand Studies at
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The wall formation was inspected by an anthropologist and a geologist; neither saw evidence of a human origin. In a preliminary investigation, anthropologist Neville Ritchie of the
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that Hilliam, who has links to the far-right, had trespassed into a Māori urupā, or burial site, and taken several skulls, which he later described as being genetically similar to
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denied this, and responded that "nobody knows anything about this.. we are not aware of any academic from the University of Edinburgh having contributed to this project."
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peoples. Barrington also claimed that Hilliam had sent the skulls to "Edinburgh University", where an unnamed forensic pathologist had examined them. When contacted by
1863:"1 The Waitaha People – a Chinese colony that settled in New Zealand 2000 years ago. | The Lost Empire of Atlantis | 1421 | 1434 | Chinese Exploration | Gavin Menzies" 64:) has been accepted by archaeologists and anthropologists. Before that time and until the 1920s, however, a small group of prominent anthropologists proposed that the 1862: 569:, which some claim is a remnant of ancient human construction that the Māori could not have built because they did not build with stone in such a way. Several 541:
claims. Scott Hamilton in "No to Nazi Pseudo-history: an Open Letter" further explains objections to the theories of Bolton and Martin Doutré (and the website
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by Maxwell C. Hill, Gary Cook and Noel Hilliam, which claims without evidence that New Zealand was discovered by explorers from ancient Egypt and Greece.
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Ritchie concluded the blocks are a natural formation based on the presence of matching micro-irregularities in blocks and imperfect joint alignment.
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Māori traditions speak of all manner of spirits, fairy folk, giants, and ogres living in parts of New Zealand when Māori arrived. The pale-skinned
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Other Māori traditions exclude the existence of other humans in New Zealand upon their arrival. A well-known story is how Māui fished up the
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are perhaps the most well-known, which Ngāti Kura, Ngāti Korakorako, and Ngāti Tūrehu are said to be sub-groupings of. In oral tradition,
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in the article, and for Hilliam insisting that he had found a "distinctively Welsh skull". Hiliam faced serious allegations of being a
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before or at a similar time to Waitaha before merging with them, with other ancient tribal groupings possibly including the
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were both contemporaries famous for exploring New Zealand before notable migration voyages began. The latter discovered
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hunting and beachcombing, were superseded by the Māori who introduced agriculture and lived in small villages.
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were the first to occupy the islands of the Pacific Ocean and were later replaced by the Polynesian peoples.
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theories has been used by prominent politicians and public figures to attack Māori politics and culture.
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and others overturned this hypothesis by showing the continuation and adaptation of the 'Archaic'
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A site frequently related by conspiracy theorists as evidence of pre-Polynesian settlers is the
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The Quest for Origins – Who First Discovered and Settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands?
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and carvings found throughout the islands. Most of these ideas are propounded by Doutré.
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Other supposed structures and creations of pre-Polynesian settlers are described as the
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Barrington and Hilliam were largely ridiculed for their claims, particularly for the
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wrote in his history of New Zealand, "Despite a plethora of amateur theories about
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traditions, Toi's 'ancestor' Tīwakawaka was the first to settle the country aboard
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were similar in that they could not tolerate sunlight, so they lived in the ocean.
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taught weaving and net-making to the Māori, and could not come out during the day.
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The Maori As He Was: A Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days
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as representing the end-point of a long chain of island-hopping voyages in the
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race since ancient times". Other books presenting such theories have included
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echoed this idea, suggesting an early nomadic people, who subsisted mainly on
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settlement of New Zealand was by white supremacist and Holocaust denier
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The mainstream view of the Polynesian settlement of New Zealand and the
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Biggs, Bruce Grandison (1966). "Tradition". In McLintock, A. H. (ed.).
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Shapiro, HL (1940). "The physical anthropology of the Maori-Moriori".
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In 2017, journalist Mike Barrington published a lengthy piece in the
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about a pre-Māori civilisation, many of which are considered openly
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migrations became popular and these were applied to New Zealand.
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A natural outcrop of ignimbrite (Kaimanawa Wall), with regular
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Stephenson, Janet; Bauchop, Heather; Petchey, Peter (2004).
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The Great Divide: The Story of New Zealand & its Treaty
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Māori migration canoes § The "great fleet" hypothesis
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The Great Divide: The Story of New Zealand and its Treaty
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Historians and archaeologists dismiss any such theories.
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when he arrived in New Zealand. In a myth collected from
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Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences at Wairakei
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Pre-Maori settlement of New Zealand conspiracy theories
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in nature. Today, such theories are considered to be
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Pseudohistorical theories of New Zealand settlemsnt
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Index

Pre-Maori settlement of New Zealand conspiracy theories

Chatham Islands
South Pacific
Polynesians
Māori
New Zealand
James Cook
Moriori
Chatham Islands
Melanesia
School Journal
conspiratorial
pseudohistorical
negationist
Māori mythology
Ui-te-Rangiora

patupaiarehe
Ponaturi
Westland
Kāti Māhaki ki Makaawhio
Māui
Bruce Bay
Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora
Banks Peninsula
Kupe
Ngahue
pounamu
kurī

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