Usual garbage from panda-nz, ignoramus Labour Party peasant, who wanted Ryman to load up with even more debt to do a share buyback.
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There is plenty of archeological evidence for people living in NZ prior to the great Maori migration and lots of different angles on this. For example, around Poukawa amateur archaeologist Russell Price found evidence of human occupation that dates as far back as 2000 BC determined using volcanic ash layers and radio carbon dating. There are also Welsh stories of people banished to the other end of the earth for multiple generations who were dropped off in Westland and Hokianga. The Waitaha peoples came here from Easter Island before the Maori migration. Large skulls have been found that belonged to people who were around 7 foot tall. A large Celtic wishing stone was found in Bombay. Maori folklore talks of the ghostly people that were already here. There are genetic throwbacks with fair skinned Maori who have green eyes and red hair who have a slightly different genealogical lineage. There are multiple angles on this and possibly multiple different peoples that were here before the Maori migration and I suspect I have missed many of the other angles. Google is your friend - I recommend start with the Poukawa dig. I found it fascinating.
https://www.celticnz.co.nz/PoukawaRe...kawaPart1.html be sure to click 'continue' at the bottom of the first page and so on. I spoke with one of the people on the excavation team and he believes the write-up as presented was a fair representation of what happened.
The Tamil Bell. Article does not tell us that it was found by local Maori in the roots or base of a giant tree that was blown over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_bell
I had a skim read, interesting that it was not backed by professional archeologists. A part timer finding some Moa bones and making wild speculations does not a realistic theory make.
Don't worry I am not going to do concurrent 4 year degrees in archeology, anthropology and geology to debate you on this one.
Interesting that people going down these rabbit holes always seem to do a lot of reading, I suspect usually influenced by confirmation bias. Other than this one dig why have we not heard more about this "theory" before. And before you say it is suppressed by Maori remember this all came out when Maori still had little say in academia or the govt.
Not sure "Black Monday" is the appropriate thread. We should really head back to the other threads so share traders can go about their business while we solve the countries problems.
Aaron - like McFadgen you skimmed it, clearly do not understand it, and you denigrate people who cannot defend themselves. Shameful. It was backed by the professionals of the day so your conclusions are incorrect and are misinformation.
I don't know much about archeology but surprised I have not heard about something that sounds pretty significant and ground breaking before today.
Apologies for suggesting you are a conspiracy theorist, I will keep my eyes open for further confirmation of this theory.
It was ground breaking at the time....in more ways than one. If you do more than skim reading then you would understand what happened next. Why is another story.