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- Date: 2026-04-16 04:46:45
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This topic has appeared in the English Wikipedia rankings 1 time. It first appeared on 2026-04-16 and was most recently seen on 2026-04-16.
Wikipedia Overview
Since the early 1900s it has been accepted by archaeologists and anthropologists that Polynesians were the first ethnic group to settle in New Zealand. Before that time and until the 1920s, however, a small group of prominent anthropologists proposed that the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands represented a pre-Māori group of people from Melanesia, who once lived across all of New Zealand and were replaced by the Māori. While this claim was soon disproven by academics, it was widely incorporated into school textbooks during the 20th century, most notably in the School Journal. This theory has been followed by modern claims of a pre-Māori settlement of New Zealand. Today, such theories are considered to be pseudohistorical and negationist by scholars and historians.
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