Mainstream academics and Maori groups voice scepticism, but researchers say acknowledging lesser-known history could alter national identity For generations, the narrative of New Zealand's human ...

Leading historians have branded resurfaced theories claiming Chinese explorers settled Aotearoa before Māori as “fanciful” ...

For generations, the narrative of New Zealand’s human settlement has held that Polynesian voyagers – the ancestors of the Maori – arrived and settled the islands in the 13th century, followed by ...