Wairau Bar

Wairau Bar

The Wairau Bar is a 19 ha gravel bar formed where the Wairau River meets the sea in Cloudy Bay, Marlborough, north-eastern South Island, New Zealand. It is an important archaeological site relating to the early settlement of the Maori people in New Zealand, both as a burial site and a midden with the remains of numerous butchered moa, and other now-extinct fauna, being found there. It has been dated to c.1100-1350 CE.Geoff Irwin and Carl Walrond. 'When was New Zealand first settled?', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 20-Sep-2007 [http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/NewZealanders/MaoriNewZealanders/WhenWasNewZealandFirstSettled/en] ] Kipfer, Barbara Ann. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, p.596. [http://books.google.com/books?id=XneTstDbcC0C&pg=PA596&lpg=PA596&dq=wairau+bar&source=web&ots=na3x_12XjN&sig=SM-VZ1deN7irAkOH3ltrR2jVX6k] downloaded 3 January 2008]

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