Re: European woman 'arrived in New Zealand before Captain Cook'
- From: George <gblack@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:09:05 -0700 (PDT)
On Aug 14, 9:34 am, Eric Stevens <eric.stev...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:56:48 -0700 (PDT), George <gbl...@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Aug 13, 9:37 pm, David <pchristain...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"The Maori are believed to have settled around
1200. The first white women known to have
arrived in the country were two convicts who
escaped from a penal colony in New South
Wales, Australia, in 1806."
I see you missed the bit where they are -GOING - to subject the skull
to 14C dating.
My understanding is that they have already done it once. That's how
all the flap arose in the first place.
Just like the Rattus exulans eh ?
Refs:
Anderson A J
1996 Was Rattus exulans in New Zealand 2000 years ago.
Archaeology in Oceania : 31: 178-183
Differential reliability of C14 ages of rat bone gelatine in South
Pacific history
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand : 30: 243-261
Newsletter of the New Zealand Archaeological Society Association
3 : 28
The Holdaway R N & Bevan N R articles are already referenced here
http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/publish/jrsnz/2002/024.phpYaldwyn J C
The matchbox the rat bone the Hukanui #76 excavations 1959
Archaeology in New Zealand 45: 118-129
June 2002 Archaeology in New Zealand Vol 45 No.2 page 118
September 2002 Archaeology in New Zealand Vol 45 No.3 page 216 A
Anderson..
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