S1 E1: Prehistoric New Zealand | RNZ 

LOVED IT. Wish high school taught it like this in the 90s. Looking forward to more keep up the interesting content. We have a special home guys

Looking forward to the next one - Henry and Thomas

Im so glad I found your videos. Thank you for doing this series because we never learnt this at school

Shout out to all the year 9 and 10 social studies/history students watching this on a bleak monday morning

Very informative and easy to understand and retain. Look forward to the next one.

so necessary. well done, thank you.

Excellent work RNZ. Great resource, thank you.

I can’t recommend your series enough! An engaging delivery of our history in layman’s terms, dispelling racist myths and explaining ongoing land wars. I believe this is essential viewing not just for kids but adults too as there were so many gaps in our schooling when it comes to this topic. I am enlightened and will be sharing as much as I can.

Kia Ora Korua, Good work putting together an informative overall history of our beautiful home.Its a great foundation for further research. Thank you.

I am loving this. Can't wait for the next chapter.

you guy`s are so smart and keep up the work you guy`s are doing great

Love it, looking forward to the next episode.

Great information and Animation!

Nice to see William Ray - Black Sheep is an excellent series and lead me here! :)

This is great! Can't wait to show my kids.

The auto-captioning is hopeless at te reo Māori (and often the kiwi accent too). So here's an accurate transcript for those that need the accessibility

Cool way to fill in some of the blanks ,thank you.

Have been using this and other Episodes of this for my ESOL students for 3 years or so now. Excellent educational video for secondary students!!

Super cool! Shared it with my teacher buddies!

Very interesting. A bit of a ‘talking head school teachery’ vibe though. Looking forward to future episodes.

This is amazing found through reddit!

thanks.... sent this to my kids.

So interesting - must pass it on to to our kids, grandkids and great grandies too!

Great job👍 I watched many times with my son and learned a lot from this 😊 .

I find the pre-Maori human history of NZ fascinating. There are so many signs of people who inhabited NZ before the Maori arrived. NZ is an open book. Can you do an episode about this please?

Bro! I’ve just seen this because of tik tok! I’m so effing impressed! It’s 3am and I’m contemplating wether to go to sleep or watch more

epic so cool

Love it - this is a great resource for primary schools

Great resource!

Aotearoa's history is really interesting. As a brazilian, I learned just a bit about it, mostly in a chapter of my school's History book that would include all Oceania (but would manly talk about Australia in just a few pages).

my teacher showed this to my class

Love history

this was good

Nice one.

I love this show

Kia ora, The Aoteroa History Show. My English teacher recommended your show and I am loving it! I'd like to make a request, though... Could you please caption your videos, so that people like myself can understand your contents thoroughly and also, so that I can share them with my deaf/HoH friends, please?? This wonderful, kind person below generously left a perfect transcript for us which has helped me A LOT, but really, shouldn't that be something you should take the initiative in??

1:46 The land is permanent. 2:07 Māori legends - Ranginui and Papatūānuku - Maui and his brothers. 2:33 Modern parallels 2:54 Gondwanaland, Prehistoric 3:39 Zelandia -Te Riu-a-Māui 5:40 The extinction of the Dinosaurs 6:12 Mammals 7:22 Bird life 8:50 The Ice Ages 10:16 Volcanic eruptions 11:33 First human inhabitants

Is this series sort of an adaption of michael kings penguin history of new zealand by any chance?

this is excellent!!!!!! But, is a transcript of the video available? I am not a native speaker and I have some difficulty with some sentences. especially with those that you mention in Maori (is that correct?) too ... !!!

You so gotta love it when the presenter says "..yea I know, it's cool eh?" 😆

i love 0:04

Cool our teacher wanted us to look at this an I learned heps

Uh, you guys ARE aware you made the next one Private, right?

Nice 💯🩵

if only it got proper English subtitles... have difficulties for some pronunciations

whoop whoop

Ray william johnson?

What about the savage club and the treaty signed in sankrit

yo willie

😍 When was the fire?

11:30 didn't work for White Island.

Im being forced to watch this at school please send help... now.... like now now

So when taupo erupted larva magma and very hot rocks could not? ignite dry grass, forest, setting alight a mass of land scape ? the contridiction !

Do you guys have any research on how vikings arrived in New Zealand 200 years before James Cook?

Thought this would be really great to show to my class but really disappointed that within the first 30secs there's swearing. Why do this??

Very good but in the first few minutes the word bugger seemed inappropriate

Bummed

Explain science. (Kia ora)

The white woke insist that Maori used to call NZ Aotearoa but that isn’t factually and historically correct.

Is this 100% accurate? I don't think so.

Plate Tectonic theory is incorrect, stop using as the basis for explaining how things came to be.

no ones writing thAT

Kim Hill & tama iti should have been moderating these kids. The dawn raids that imprisoned tama.. and empower the NZ CIA, all stuff RNZ knows but won't allow cos, whose the boss of thus so I can address grievance?

Whoa. Hang on. Maori we’re here a lot longer than that guys. NOT ‘700’ years ago. More like a thousand years ago.

And watch this they take my comment out

Hi

Why does he look so wierd and creepy and sinister?

What a load of rubbish! Sorry, no offense intended. I came to watch this after watching other episodes of this magnificent series and thought it time to see episode1. Nevermind. It is not your fault. It is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to find the truth of the ancient past - we weren't there. So thank you to all the committed historians, geologists etc, academics and teachers who try to do so, your input to the task is crucial and of great benefit to us and future students - but please, make sure you tell the young ones that what you teach is only 'present thought and theory', and that time will uncover more facts and also prove much 'present thought' to be false. I find 'University Correctness' a proud thing, with a somewhat British upper-class smell to it, no matter what the skin tone. PS. Whatever the subject, the Comments section can be a very rich pool of study, thank you all.

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New zealand skeleton in the cupboard watch it

3 minutes in; an you make comments such as " We have Our Educated Guesses " And " We Just don't have any idea " I maybe wrong; But it seems like you've Gathered every piece of information from one source, even neglecting to Challenge your sources information, There is no way you should have put out this series without even consulting Tangata Whenua. You Look like actor's Reading Directly from a standard government issued information Pack commissioned, theorized and performed solely by institute's financed by the government which actively excluded, ignored and discredited Maori going as far as deeming any information pertaining to historical events that took place pre-European as nothing more then ' Myths and legend ' or non fiction story's use to entertain each other Instead they opted to push the findings of another pakeha decided that their findings are obviously true and our facts are not.

Upoke is the term for Maori slaves. They were about 80% of the population prior to the Europeans. They were the primary source of protein in what was a horrific degeneration of Polynesian society into rampart structural cannibalism - a period of horror that lasted some 500 years until they were rescued by the European. The Maori had come with the original Polynesian caste structure of royals and bonded commoners after being outcast and set adrift on rafts to end up stranded in NZ. Within a recorded period of about 8 generations this then degenerated into 9 different language groups ( no common language) and a horrific two tier ethnically and racially based caste structure. - Ariki / from the original royal elite - these were documented and painted or drawn as lighter to white skinned, wiry, smaller boned, fine featured, thin nose, thin lipped, straight hair, anxious, aggressive cannibalistic ruling class. Upoke / from the original bonded commoners (such bonding or serfdom broke down in NZ as land was unconstrained) and slaves. Upoke or poke was used in conjunction with Kuku or Kiko ie a Upoke Kiko was slave flesh - or else poke singular or pokes group). The Upoke slaves were the 'wealth' of the Maoris and raiding and capturing other clans and tribes Upoke was the primary industry of the Maoris. These Upoke were dark skinned, larger limbed, thick lipped, flat nosed, curly haired, easily fattened, low IQ and sedentary. The settlements of the Maoris (Pa's) were in valley passes where they could anticipate attack from the sea and run into the bush behind. A Pa's very design is as a cannibal storage camp of humans as slave eating flesh with perimeters controlling access and confining the slaves. Have a good look at the original designs of the Pa's and what their real purpose was. Upoke females were normally killed and eaten at birth but on arrival of the Europeans -( trade was for Upoke boiled male heads carved with European arabesques eg 'Maori Moko designs - all European) but with a shortage of that & the trade being policed - the Maori Ariki turned to selling young Upoke slave girls to the sailors and settlers for guns. Often as records show, the Ariki would line up the young Upoke on the beach or field and then tell the Europeans they would all be slaughtered and eaten unless the European met their demands. As such the European settlements were flooded with Upoke slaves, mainly young females being the demand. The Europeans bred with these slave females gave immunity to the mixed race offspring disease such as measles & flu that full blood Maori did not have. Again this is subject to much record (1880 onwards) about the 'revitalization' and out breeding of the Maori being their only path of survival / there was much concern the Maori would become extinct so all Europeans & Maori were much focused on such outbreeding to ensure that a trace of Maori may exist in the future.By 1903 there were no Ariki left and only 14 very old full blood Upoke. The last full blood died in 1944 - as reported by the minister of Maori affairs much later to the NZ parliament. The marked differences between the Ariki and the slave caste were much commented on, discussed and captured in paintings & portraits. Almost all Maori today would be offspring of Europeans & Upoke slaves - the filters of inter Maori fratricide between the Ariki clans & disease acted as an filter to remove both Ariki and full bloods. "A Savage Country" Professor Paul Moon' This Horrid Practice' - Professor Paul Moon, 'Behind The Tattooed Face' - Heretaunga Pat Baker, 'Anthropology In The South Seas' - H D Skinner

Quite a history about the Maori - put the Inca's or the Aztecs to shame in degeneration. Outcast during the 13th century as weaker primitive Neolithic people by the invading Hawaiians & Tongans (Maori were from the original wave of primitive Asian/Melanesians pushed right out across the Eastern Pacific by successive stronger more advanced races coming from the west). They were outcast on rafts and some floated up in NZ stranded for 500 years. The weaker were pushed down to the South Island or Chathams etc. So the South Island Maori (had their own language) were the weakest of the weak. They were captured and eaten as 'Slave flesh' by the northern Maori doing raids. (Well they all ate each other - 80% of Maori pre European were dark skinned easily fattened slaves farmed and eaten by a lighter skinned 'Ariki' thin wiry elite royal caste). So it was with some righteousness as well as British cunning that they armed the southern Maori who then with muskets launched a genocidal war on the north.. That plus measles & flu halved the Maori population and removed most of the elite. The British then liberated the slaves and outlawed cannibalism. The northern Maori fought with the British against the south bad west Maori 'rebels'. The Maori sued for peace and a treaty was signed that removed all sovereignty and made them subjects to the English crown where the English would protect them from each other. Land could only be sold to or via the Crown. Maori could live on their reservations with native custom but none did. The treaty of Waitangi is strikingly clear in that the Maori cede sovereignty completely and become citizens of Great Britain - all 3 clauses lock that in. Nothing in today's 'Maori' culture is authentic. The music - all European (Maoris did not have tonal music, the songs are missionary tunes or introduced - Poi dance is from Islands and Stick dance from old Malaya. The carvings and art - all European - Arabesques that was the fashion at the time. Original Maori had limited dash carving and no painting of objects. No written language - all the syntax & grammar plus vowel inflection is European. No technology - some lagoon canoes and wood or stone Neolithic tools. No food sources - like pigs or crops - they left that all behind, all they had was a weak inbred fox (now extinct), some rats and a weak dismal pacific yam. They ate out all the bird-life, didn't know how to farm the sea as were island people and so they turned to societal cannibalism. Today - no full blood or half blood left. No genuine tradition and almost all are offspring of Maori slave females sold to white settlers for muskets or food. -So more fake than the 'Sioux' or 'Cherokee' or 'Crow' who had at least retained some genuineness about who they were and their history. -Everything you 'saw or experienced' is Fake. A totally convected disneyfied tokenistic set of inventions fueled by a grievance culture of mixed-race imposters fetishing a false past bad history because it pays benefits. 'This Horrid Practice' - Professor Paul Moon, "A Savage Country" Professor Paul Moon 'Behind The Tattooed Face' - Heretaunga Pat Baker, 'Anthropology In The South Seas' - H D Skinner

The dude in here I heard him say Maori came here and said conquered the moriori and after that he said he conquered the Maori so this dude is racist I give you a 5buk bet I'll conquer him

Boring! Bty lovely hair!

These people telling this are a joke and no nothing ov nz early history

evoved!!?? u mean god made them

Straight up put this on after a coupley spots🤌🏽