[split] Waipoua Forest

[C_T_Russell]

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."

What do you make of this then?
https://www.propertynoise.co.nz/the-anci...fore-kupe/

"The much discussed “Embargo” document signed by Archaeologist, Michael Taylor and accompanying 14 pages of “something”, which neither the general public nor bona fide research workers were permitted to view until the year 2063. The document states, in the handwriting of Michael Taylor, that ‘Prior consultation requires approval of the Te Roroa- Waipoua Advisory Committee or other appropriate subsequent Te Roroa authority’. The printed line, which would allow bona fide research workers access to the information has been crossed out and overwritten with, ‘restricted until 2063’. The overall intent of this document, as the covering-page for a body of archaeological information deemed “top secret”, could not be clearer. "

Also similar sites have been found in Australia.

I first remember hearing about this on 60 minutes about 20 years ago on the TV.
If you go to the dargaville museum they have a pre maori artifact on display too, Its not a Maori carving, but looks a little Polynesian inspired.
I believe it was discovered buried in the sand dunes in the aera.