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Archaeologists Reveal Details about Lifestyle of First New Zealanders
A new study published in the international journal, PLOS ONE, has revealed new information about the diet, lifestyles and movements of ... is one of the most important archaeological sites in New Zealand because of its age and the variety of east Polynesian ...
aprilholloway - 20/05/2013 - 13:21
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Living Lights: Majestic Glowworm Cave of Waitomo is Like a Starry Night
... Cave is a magnificent subterranean cave system in Waitomo, New Zealand, which as its name suggests, is renowned for its ... referred to as fireflies, belong to a species unique to New Zealand and are not found anywhere else in the world. The ...
dhwty - 21/01/2018 - 18:54
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Two Egyptian Book Of The Dead Shroud Fragments Have Been Reunited!
... Egyptian Book of the Dead shroud fragments, one in New Zealand, and the other one in Los Angeles, have been ... Egyptian Book of the Dead shroud fragments, one in New Zealand, and the other one in Los Angeles, have been ...
ashley cowie - 15/07/2021 - 18:57
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Oceania’s Papua New Guinea: Forged In Volcanic Fire
... realm in the Pacific Ocean includes Australia, New Zealand, eastern Indonesia, and several Pacific island groups - including Papua New Guinea – all scattered along the Ring of Fire The ...
micki pistorius - 10/10/2022 - 21:41
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6,000-Year-Old Skull is Earliest Known Victim of a Tsunami
... someone who lived 6,000 years ago in what's now Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific. Their skull was found in ... tsunami activity. This means, scientists posit in a new paper in PLOS ONE , that this skull could be from the ... University of Notre Dame, the University of Auckland, New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric ...
ancient-origins - 29/10/2017 - 22:02
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Age of First Chief's Ancient Tomb Reveals Pacific Islanders Invented New Kind of Society
New dating on the stone buildings of Nan Madol suggests the ... earliest among the islands to be ruled by a single chief. New dating on the stone buildings of Nan Madol suggests the ... of Cambridge, U.K., Richard Hemi, University of Otago, New Zealand, Hai Cheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, and R. ...
ancient-origins - 21/10/2016 - 03:44
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The Frightening Discovery of the Mount Owen Claw
... an expedition inside a large cave system on Mount Owen in New Zealand when they stumbled across a frightening and unusual ... an expedition inside a large cave system on Mount Owen in New Zealand when they stumbled across a frightening and ...
aprilholloway - 29/08/2020 - 00:07
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14th Century Maori Village Brought to Light by Logging Yard Project
Archaeologists in New Zealand have made a special discovery at Eastland Port in ... tools. The moa was a type of flightless bird endemic to New Zealand that are now extinct. Evidence of trade between ...
Alicia McDermott - 01/06/2018 - 14:01
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Newly-discovered ancient fortress reveals architectural accomplishments of Vikings
... a ring-shaped Viking fortress on the Danish island of Zealand, which historians believe may have been used to train ... and unique to Denmark. So far, only small areas of the new fortress have been uncovered, but findings so far show ... inside the fortress. "Our investigations show that the new fortress was perfectly circular and had sturdy timber ...
aprilholloway - 11/09/2014 - 23:32
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New Barrier Reef Find Proves Australians Didn’t Learn Pottery from Europe
A new discovery off the northwestern coast of Australia has ... Australia by Europeans. This has now been proven wrong. A new discovery off the northwestern coast of Australia has ... Jiigurru was made by a vacationing archaeologist from New Zealand in 2006, while snorkeling in the shallow lagoon. ...
Sahir - 13/04/2024 - 17:53
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Deadly Volcanoes: The Eruptions that Reshaped the World and Became Legends - Part II
... crops. Out of the ashes of the resulting caldera, a new island was formed in 1927 called Anak Krakatau, or the ... of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. ( Public Domain ) New Zealand - Crime and Punishment The Polynesian descendants ...
lizleafloor - 26/07/2015 - 02:39
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A Trove of New Denisovan Discoveries Revealed At A Recent Anthropological Conference
... there were in fact seven major presentations that offered new insights into the enigmatic world of the Denisovans, ... Murray Cox of Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and molecular biologist Herawati Sudoyo of the ...
Andrew Collins - 03/04/2019 - 22:53
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Endangered Heritage: The Rakau Momori Tree Carvings of the Moriori
... trunk on Rekohu, the main island of the Chatham Islands in New Zealand. ( Steve / Adobe Stock) Right: Illustrations of ... who live on Chatham Islands, some 800 kilometers east of New Zealand . They originate from Maori settlers who arrived ...
Aleksa Vučković - 05/12/2023 - 21:51
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Have Experts Finally Located the Wreck of Cook’s Ship HMS Endeavour?
... mapped much of the Pacific Ocean and explored Australia, New Zealand and countless islands. Cook was killed in a skirmish ... Back-to-Back in the Black Sea HMS Endeavour (Archives of New Zealand/ CC BY 2.0 ) They Think They’ve Found it! ...
Ed Whelan - 20/09/2018 - 22:56
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Would the REAL Endeavour Shipwreck Please Stand Up?
... the Sun in Tahiti. Cook then mapped the coast of New Zealand in the South Pacific before making the first European ... the bottom of Newport Harbor in Rhode Island, USA, and the new research results say the ship was wrecked in 1778 during ...
ashley cowie - 15/09/2019 - 23:00
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AI Finds New Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA Mutations in Human Genome
... advantage humans gain from possessing such material. This new AI program is uniquely suited for identifying instances ... now southern and eastern Asia and in Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, and the nearby islands of Melanesia, Polynesia, and ...
Nathan Falde - 18/06/2021 - 22:48
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Pot Residues Reveal Secrets of Ancient Cuisine
... the University of California, Berkeley, have published a new research paper in the journal Scientific Reports, which ... the University of California, Berkeley, have published a new research paper in the journal Scientific Reports , ... postdoctoral scholar at the University of Otago in New Zealand, explains that the new data enables better ...
ashley cowie - 13/09/2020 - 18:45
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The Cost of War: Democracy Comes at a Price – Part 1
... to change, once the American Banks stepped in. This is the New Zealand Division marching from Trentham to embark for Europe. ... A World War 1 Story, Part 6. Hutt Valley, Wellington, New Zealand, 14 April 1916. ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Mobilizing the ...
Cam Rea - 02/05/2018 - 15:51
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Paranthropus “Nutcracker” Teeth Theory Debunked in New Study
... have evolved from the Australopithecus . A fascinating new study by researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand studied Paranthropus food habits and teeth sheds ...
Sahir - 25/07/2021 - 22:02
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Evidence Accumulates for Ancient Transoceanic Voyages, Says Geographer
... around 1000 A.D. were the only ones to make it to the New World before Christopher Columbus landed in the 15th ... helped him see many similarities between ancient Old and New World cultures. But, he said, more biological evidence is ... reconstructed ancient double canoe, from Hawai’i to New Zealand using traditional methods of navigation. ...
ancient-origins - 12/06/2016 - 21:45