Subpolar settlement in South Polynesia

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    Abstract

    Archaeological research in the Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand, has disclosed earth ovens, middens and flaked stone tools dating to the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries AD. This is the first site of prehistoric settlement in the outlying islands of the Subantarctic. Polynesians and their dogs survived on seals and seabirds for at least one summer. The new data complete a survey of colonisation in the outlying archipelagos of South Polynesia and show that it occurred contemporaneously, rapidly and in all directions from mainland New Zealand.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)791-800
    JournalAntiquity
    Volume79
    Issue number306
    Publication statusPublished - 2005

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