A member of an early Maori culture in New Zealand, characterized by the hunting of moas.
there were further excavations at the moa-hunter's camp at Papatowai
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- Tokoroa is one of the few Central North Island locations to be identified as a moa hunter site.
- To better define the critical period of moa hunting, the research was aimed at "book-ending" the moa hunter period with new estimates for when people started eating moa, and when there were no more moa to eat.
- As a result the course and causes of the considerable changes between the culture of the moa-hunter and the late Maori stages are unknown.
- Both companies received convictions for damaging the Redcliffs moa-hunter site without authority.
- The site is a large moa hunter occupation site dating to around the mid 14th to early 15th centuries.
- There are sites that I've read described as originally covering 90 hectares, with maybe perhaps a meter-deep sediment -- and these are moa-hunter sites, butchered sites.
- The moa-hunter ovens were uncovered 12-15 inches below the level of similar Maori ovens strongly suggesting an earlier geological period.
- The site has played a crucial role in developing ideas about the origins of Maori culture and the relationship between moa hunters and classical Maori.
- The researchers modelled the human population size through the moa hunter period and beyond.
- It is also a popular fishing and whitebaiting location and has archaeological and cultural significance as site of early moa hunter settlements.