Nuts Prove Maori as First New Zealanders

The chewed nuts by ancient rats remained is considered to be the new evidence that settles the debate regarding
Maori people whether in New Zealand they were the first inhabitants. The paleontologist Trevor worthy of the University of Adelaide in Australia and colleagues report initiates about their finding of proceedings of the national academy of sciences. The research settles a debate trigger in 1996 and when the researchers reports that they had found evidence for human presence in New Zealand 2,000 years ago.

Richard holdaway of university of Canterbury and colleagues argues that Maori was the first humans in New Zealand. The idea that there were people in New Zealand before Maori and though the accurate date has been reported in the nature. The holdaway 1996 paper rely on radiocarbon dating of rat bones from the species rattus exulans which considered for human presence in New Zealand. Worthy and his colleagues dated the bones taken from the layers of soil excavated in holdaway study and dig deeper to recover older bones.