This paper reintroduces the concept of mass migration into debates concerning the timing and nature of New Zealand’s settlement by Polynesians. Upward revisions of New Zealand’s chronology show that the appearance of humans on the landscape occurred extremely rapidly, and that within decades settlements had been established across the full range of climatic zones. We show that the rapid appearance of a strong archaeological signature in the early 14th century AD is the result of a mass migration event, not the consequence of gradual demographic growth out of a currently unidentified earlier phase of settlement. Mass migration is not only consistent with the archaeological record but is supported by recent findings in molecular biology and genetics. It also opens the door to a new phase of engagement between archaeological method and indigenous Maori and Polynesian oral history and tradition.

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大规模移民与新西兰的波利尼西亚人定居

本文将大规模移民的概念重新引入了有关波利尼西亚人定居新西兰的时间和性质的辩论中。对新西兰年表的向上修订显示，人类在地貌上的出现速度非常快，并且在数十年之内，已经在整个气候区域建立了定居点。我们表明，在公元14世纪初期，强大的考古学特征的迅速出现是大规模移民事件的结果，而不是当前未确定的早期定居阶段逐渐人口增长的结果。大规模迁徙不仅与考古记录一致，而且得到了分子生物学和遗传学的最新发现的支持。