We are grateful to the Hokotehi Moriori Trust as legal representatives of the Moriori people and as full partners in the recent research reported here. We acknowledge and respect their mana over Moriori sites, knowledge and images. In particular, we thank General Manager Maui Solomon, Project Manager Susan Thorpe and Moriori elder Tom Lanauze for their encouragement and support of the recent research. We thank Emeritus Professor Helen Leach and Monica Tromp for reading early drafts of this paper and providing invaluable feedback. We would like to thank the team at the Rafter Radiocarbon laboratory for their bravery in letting an archaeologist make use of the space. We acknowledge the contribution of Xun Li (GNS Science) in the pilot study of Chatham Island pollen from peat which suggested that this project was viable. Les O'Neill, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago prepared Figs. 1–4. The Otago Museum made available the charcoal assemblage excavated in the 1970s at Waihora. The manuscript benefited from constructive reviews by the anonymous reviewers. Financial assistance was provided by University of Otago Research Grants (IGB), a university of Otago Doctoral Scholarship (JJM). An AINSE grant (15/005) provided additional dates for the pollen cores. JJM and IGB were supported by the New Zealand Marsden Fund (UOO1415). MJV was supported by GNS Science's Core Funded Programme ‘Global Change through Time’.
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand; Department of Geography, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand; GNS Science, PO Box 30-368, Lower Hutt, New Zealand; Institute for Environmental Research, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology, Organization, Locked Bag 2001, Kirrawee DC, NSW, Australia
Recommended Citation:
Maxwell J.J.,Howarth J.D.,Vandergoes M.J.,et al. The timing and importance of arboriculture and agroforestry in a temperate East Polynesia Society, the Moriori, Rekohu (Chatham Island)[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2016-01-01,149