A wiggle-match date for Polynesian settlement of New Zealand

Antiquity

Volumn 77, Issue 295, 2003, Pages 116-125

  Hogg, Alan G ^a   Higham, Thomas F G ^b   Lowe, David J ^a   Palmer, Jonathan G ^c   Reimer, Paula J ^d   Newnham, Rewi M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

14C dating; Colonisation; Deforestation; Dendrochronology; East Polynesia; Kaharoa eruption; Maori; New Zealand; Tephra; Tephrochronology; Wiggle matching

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 0037366566     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00061408     Document Type: Article

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