Fun fact. Rapanui were the ancestors of nz maori.
Same language
In Rapanui language maori means esteemed teacher.
They destroyed Easter Island and brought their violent culture to nz.
And I have no doubt that they encountered other Polynesian and even viking groups which they consumed in feasts and rape.
Now take the cook islanders. Clearly also maori. But very mild mannered ones. Probably due to interbreeding with passive Polynesian populations.
The idea that maori were the first humans to live on nz is ludicrous.
Polynesians spread everywhere and to think for seven hundred years that they missed such a large land with wind and oceanic currents leading here?
Yeah. Maori being the first indigenous of NZ is pure garbage. Even early writers and histories (both European and Maori) talk of other People living in NZ contiguous with (early) Maori. Plus if Maoridom openly admit they were not the very first to inhabit NZ it would completely destroy their treaty/ land/ resource settlement reparation's for being the original inhabitants. Early/ Modern Maori are a hybrid of several different Groups (Mostly Polynesian/ East Asian/ Taiwan) with Middle Eastern/ Egyptian mixing (Maui the Explorer and Egyptian myth Bes, the carved figure on top of the meeting house posts) and likely assimilated or wiped out asny other competitors/ inhabitants in NZ.
Skeletons in the cupboard. Pre maori constrution found on farmland. Government put a moritorium in place to stop research into the stonework.
Video on youtube exposing the corruption
Yes. That's the one, that entire series is great. Plus of course all the ancient standing stones around Auckland and elsewhere used for sighting Sunrises and longest/ shortest days of the lunar year etc, and the proliferous NZ Kumara (Sweet potatoe originally came from South America). Clearly travel/ migration back and forth across great distances of open ocean was accomplished by multiple different Racial/ Tribal groups from all 4 corners of the world.
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