2016/12/20 by Atholl Anderson · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.26686/jnzs.v0i23.3987
openalex publication_date 2016/12/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/07
Literary and scientific narratives are often constructed in three parts, of which the task of the middle section is to make the beginning and the end satisfactorily consistent with each other. In this lecture I discuss some ideas about how that might be accomplished in relation to a middle or transitional phase of Māori archaeology, which I will take as dating about AD 1450-1650. Some of you might wonder whether this has not been done satisfactorily already, but I assure you that it has not. In fact, just as Medieval Europe was once seen as a dark age between the Classical era and its Renaissance, so the middle phase in Māori archaeology remains a shadowland between highlights of Polynesian colonisation and classic Māori culture.