The First Migration - Maori Origins 3000BC - AD1450

Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2017. Good secondhand condition.

Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson's ground-breaking synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand's first human inhabitants.

Taken from the multi-award winning TANGATA WHENUA this Text weaves together evidence from numerous sources: oral traditions, archaeology, genetics and more. The result is to people the ancient past: to offer readers a sense of the lives of Maori ancestors as they voyaged through centuries toward the South Pacific.