The Moriori are the first settlers of the Chatham Islands Rēkohu in Moriori; Wharekauri in Māori). [3] Moriori are Polynesians who came from the New Zealand mainland around 1500 AD, [4][5] which was close to the time of the shift from the archaic to the…
Great-grandfather Allan Witana has a quiet giggle when people ask where he’s from. The 71-year-old speaks fluent te reo and identifies Maori as his native tongue. The 71-year-old speaks fluent…
A group of fringe “archaeologists” and self-proclaimed historians have been hijacking New Zealand’s media with tales of a pre-Māori European race. VICE has found at least one of them has…
In 1996, the alternative historian Barry Brailsford drew the world’s attention to the Kaimanawa wall in New Zealand. The curious structure lies in the Kaimanawa State Forest, south of Lake…
The Song of Waitaha begins with a dedication and ends with a "patriarchal blessing" from Pani Manawatu, past Upoko Runanga of the Ngai Tuahuriri hapu. A good start. One would…
Keywords: Chinese cartography; fake maps; 1421; Gavin Menzies; Liu Gang; dual hemisphere maps SummaryA Chinese world map purportedly drawn in 1763, and allegedly based on an earlier version of 1418,…
