Key points:
- Humans may not have colonized New Zealand over 2000 years ago, it may have been 1000 years later.
- This was found by new carbon dating of old Pacific rat (kiore) bones.
- The bones were no older than 200 BCE (not 1280 BCE as previously thought).
Interesting Quote:"As the Pacific rat or kiore cannot swim very far, it can only have arrived in
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