A new study ... of the New Zealand terrestrial megafauna of moa, giant eagle, and giant geese, accomplished by the direct and indirect activities of a very low-density human population, shows ...

British and Polynesian influences course through picturesque New Zealand, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Australia. Early Maori settlers ceded sovereignty to British invaders ...

the Polynesian population of New Zealand during the period of moa exploitation would not have exceeded 2,000, at a density of ~0.01 km −2. A small population of humans with a basic toolkit of ...

A new study ... of the New Zealand terrestrial megafauna of moa, giant eagle, and giant geese, accomplished by the direct and indirect activities of a very low-density human population, shows ...