Māori

Māori
Classification
Name	Homo sapiens
Species	Human
Family	Hominidae
Diet	Omnivore
Physiology
Description	A group of Polynesians who were the first humans to live in New Zealand
Attributes	cheerfulness and good nature; agriculture
Height	5.6 (Male) 5.2 (Female)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb)
Biography
Era	Holocene
Time	700 HYA
Discovered	1642
Locations	New Zealand

Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa). Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed their own distinctive culture, whose language, mythology, crafts, and performing arts evolved independently from those of other eastern Polynesian cultures. Some early Māori moved to the Chatham Islands, where their descendants became New Zealand's other indigenous Polynesian ethnic group, the Moriori.

In the Series 4 episode "The End of Eden", Allen and the team encountered the Māori while traveling through New Zealand 850 years ago. They were first seen when they arrived on New Zealand's shore, then again when two Māori were gathering firewood until one was attacked and killed by a Haast's Eagle. Like the Paleo-Indians 10,000 years before the Māori did not followed the group through the portal.

Gallery

Two Māori enountering a South Island Giant Moa for the first time.

The Māori after they arrived in New Zealand.

A group of Māori hunting for Moas.

A Māori creating a cave painting.

A group of Māori sitting by a fire cook meat.

Two Māori traveling through the forests of New Zealand.

Māori performing a ritual.

Two Māori drifing down a river in a canoe.