Dating the first New Zealanders: The chronology of Wairau Bar

Antiquity

Volumn 73, Issue 280, 1999, Pages 420-427

  Higham, Thomas ^a   Anderson, Atholl ^b   Jacomb, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CANTERBURY MUSEUM   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

14C dating; Colonization; New Zealand; Polynesia; Wairau Bar

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; COLONIZATION; DATING METHOD; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0032794283     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00088360     Document Type: Article

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