So the terraced areas have been shown to date to before the Middle Ages?
I don’t know if any of the anomalies in the landscape have been conclusively dated.
see link #21
“...Maori stories speak of his ancestors being greeted by a different culture when landing on New Zealand’s shores and talk of red-headed, fair-skinned people, he said.
“Who were those people who greeted our wakas and red-headed, fair-skinned people?
“You can’t deny your oral history. If we try to as Maori we’re actually denying our history.”