Origins of the Māori

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🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Around the time of the start of the Hundred Years’ War between England and France, and the Black Death was devastating tens of millions of people in Europe and Asia, waves of migration from Polynesia laid the foundations of the Māori society in Aotearoa - modern-day New Zealand.

In this episode of Gone Medieval, Dr. Eleanor Janega traces the early history of this remarkable people with archaeologist Dr. Amber Aranui, curator at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.

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1:32.6	Hello and welcome to Garmin Evil from History Hit. I'm Eleanor Yonega and in today's episode,
1:37.4	we are going to be talking about the origin of the Maori people. I'm absolutely delighted to be
1:42.6	joined by the brilliant Amber Erinuy. She is an archaeologist at Taipapa Museum in Wellington
1:47.6	and the curator of Maori cultural objects. Currently, she's been doing a lot of work on repatriating
1:52.9	cultural and human remains back to communities of origin. But today, we're here to talk about
1:57.6	origin stories writ large. Amber, thank you so much for being here. Kia ora.
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