Hostile Shores: Catastrophic Events in Prehistoric New Zealand and Their Impact on Maori Coastal CommunitiesEvidence from several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, demography, history, and the Maori oral tradition, are combined in this analysis of the many volcanic periods that shaped New Zealand. This authoritative, groundbreaking study examines the consequences on the coastal landscape and its people, from the first Polynesian settlers until European colonization in the 18th century. A study of the wave of tsunamis that struck New Zealand in the 15th century, known as the "big crunch," and precipitated various crises that led to cultural change and much warfare is also included. |
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New Zealands Tectonic Setting | 16 |
Dating Catastrophic Events by Radiocarbon | 63 |
42 | 81 |
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alluvium Alpine Fault Anderson archaeological sites Archaic Avon-Heathcote estuary Awaroa Bay of Plenty Beach Ridge Berryman bracket ranges buried soil CAL AD 95 catastrophic events Charcoal cockles Coromandel Peninsula DATE CAL earthquake East Coast erosion eruption fault rupture Figure forest gardens Goff gravel Harbour high-water mark inbuilt age inundation kilometres Lagoon Lake Loisels Pumice Mana Island Maori Marine shells Matawhero period maximum ages Maximum for uplift McFadgen metres minimum ages Moa Bone moa-hunter Monck's Cave Murihiku North Northland NUMBER occupation layer Ohuan unstable phase Otago oven Palliser Bay Papatowai peat possibly Pounawea prehistoric period probably Pumice Radiocarbon dates Rangitoto samples sand accumulation sand advance sand dunes sediment settlement Shag River shell middens shellfish silt South Island species stones stratigraphic Tamatean Taranaki Tasman Bay tectonic Tephra Tree age Trench Triangle Flat tsunami tsunami deposit tuatua twigs Unusable volcanic Waimakariri River Wairarapa Wairarapa coast Wairau Wellington Yetton younger Zealand