Polynesian colonization of Aotearoa / New Zealand (c. 1200–1300 CE)

1. Pacific rat introduction indicates human arrival

   Jan 1, 1280Labels: Kiore Pacific, Radiocarbon dating

   • PNAS PubMed
   • Te Ara

2. Wairau Bar occupied in late 13th century

   Jan 1, 1288Labels: Wairau Bar, Marlborough

   • Springer
   • Wairau Bar

3. Nationwide burning signals rapid landscape change

   Jan 1, 1300Labels: Charcoal records, Pollen analysis

   • Te Ara

4. Kaharoa eruption deposits key ash marker

   Jan 1, 1314Labels: Kaharoa tephra, Mount Tarawera

   • Te Ara
   • Waikato Thesis

5. No confirmed settlement evidence below Kaharoa tephra

   Jan 1, 1314Labels: Kaharoa tephra, Stratigraphy

   • Te Ara
   • History NZ

6. Settlement expands in decades after Kaharoa eruption

   Jan 1, 1320Labels: Settlement expansion, Early 14th

   • Tarawera
   • Te Ara

7. Southern voyaging reaches subantarctic Enderby Island

   Jan 1, 1320Labels: Enderby Island, Subantarctic voyaging

   • DOC NZ
   • ABC Pacific

8. Moa hunting intensifies during early settlement period

   Jan 1, 1350Labels: Moa hunting, Subsistence

   • Nature Comms
   • SciDirect

9. Moa extinction window constrained to ~200 years

   Jan 1, 1480Labels: Moa extinction, Radiocarbon synthesis

   • SciDirect
   • Nature Comms

10. Early settlement chronology consolidated by multi-proxy dating

    Jun 3, 2008Labels: Multi-proxy dating, Commensal evidence

    • PNAS PubMed
    • Te Ara

11. Wairau Bar re-dating refines early-site chronology

    Jan 1, 2010Labels: Wairau Bar, Re-dating

    • Wairau Bar
    • Springer

12. High-precision moa chronology published in synthesis form

    Dec 1, 2014Labels: Moa chronology, High-precision synthesis

    • SciDirect