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.