[split] Waipoua Forest

[Lilith7]

Explain who built those stone walls in the waipoa forest? Because we all know that's traditional maori construction!

There's really no way to put this politely - those people making this truly ridiculous claim are nuts. 
The stone formations are natural.


http://books.scoop.co.nz/2008/11/18/no-t...en-letter/



"Imaginary Celts and real Nazis
When a piece of writing makes sweeping accusations against a host of targets, then readers are entitled to know the identities of its authors.
Both Martin Doutre and Kerry Bolton are conspiracy theorists par exellence – they believe that every aspect of the world is governed by a set of elaborate conspiracies.



The most devastating evidence against the claim of ancient non-Polynesian settlement comes from DNA testing. The article you have published claims that the ancestors of the Maori slaughtered the male Celts who had settled this country and then raped their women, and that present-day Maori therefore have some of the blood of the ancient Celts.
In recent years a series of scholars have run DNA tests on Maori, in an effort to trace their ancestry. These tests confirm that Maori are a Polynesian people, and that Polynesians have their origins in coastal Asia thousands of years ago."