The Prehistory of New Zealand, by JanetDavidson, Longman Paul, Auckland, 1984, pp. 270 $NZ39.95, cased.

Abstract

It is now some 35 years since publication of The Moahunter Period oj Maori Culture , in which the late Dr Roger Duff defined two cultural periods in New Zealand prehistory and posed the problem of explaining the difference between them. During this time a lot of earth has been moved by archaeologists addressing the problem, and while there may be disagreement about the exact causes of the changes which occurred, a considerable body of knowledge about New Zealand prehistory has been accumulated. Although some of this information is available to the nonspecialist reader in a variety of books and articles, there has never before been any up‐to‐date, comprehensive and authoritative review. This gap is now filled by Janet Davidson's The Prehistory oj New Zealand.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 172 citations exist upstream.