"Thousands of years ago migrants from South China began the journey that took their descendants through the Pacific to the southernmost islands of Polynesia. Atholl Anderson's ... synthesis of research and tradition charts this epic journey of New Zealand's first human inhabitants. Taken from ... Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History this Text weaves together evidence from numerous sources: oral traditions, archaeology, genetics, linguistics, ethnography, historical observations, paleoecology, climate change and more"--Publisher information.