Wairau Bar

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The Wairau Bar is a 19 ha gravel bar formed where the Wairau River meets the sea in Cloudy Bay, Marlborough, north-eastern South Island, New Zealand. It is an important archaeological site relating to the early settlement of the Maori people in New Zealand, both as a burial site and a midden with the remains of numerous butchered moa, and other now-extinct fauna, being found there. It has been dated to c.1100-1350 CE.[1][2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Geoff Irwin and Carl Walrond. 'When was New Zealand first settled?', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 20-Sep-2007[1]
  2. ^ Kipfer, Barbara Ann. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, p.596.[2] downloaded 3 January 2008


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Coordinates: 41°32′S 174°05′E / -41.53, 174.09