Smithsonian Magazine8d
A Fisherman and His Son Noticed Strange Pieces of Wood on a Beach. They Turned Out to Be Fragments of a Polynesian Canoe
The boat, known as a waka, was unearthed in the Chatham Islands. Researchers say it could be one of the most significant ...
Archaeology8d
Rare Canoe Found on New Zealand Beach
The New Zealand Herald reports that a father and son duo combing a local beach for wood may have made one of the most important discoveries in New Zealand history. The pair came across strange-looking ...
Father and son’s beach find may be NZ’s greatest archaeological discovery
What began as a routine search for wood by a Rēkohu (Chatham Islands) father and son has led to one of New Zealand’s most ...
Dad and son stumble upon ‘one of the most important finds of all time in Polynesia’
An excavation in New Zealand, prompted by the finds of a dad and son, uncovered wood fragments, rope and sail fabric of a ...
The Washington Post9d
New Zealand reckons with its own divisive culture war
“It’s just a piece of paper that should be given no ‘mana,’” Maipi-Clarke, New Zealand’s youngest member of Parliament in 170 years, said in an interview here, using the Maori word for ...
scmp.com8d
Why New Zealand should keep the Maori language te reo alive
New Zealand’s government plans to have 1 million Kiwis speaking basic te reo – the language of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori population – by 2040. There are also calls to make the ...