New Zealand Radiocarbon Database Reports on pre-Maori Human Bones
Conservancy: Southland
Sample Description:
Human bone carbonate – Lab No. NZ0784
Human bone collagen – Lab No.s NZ0785
NZ0786
NZ0787
C.R.A. = Year Before Present Time (BP) with BP being 1950
Their age can therefore be translated to:
C.R.A. –100
802= 1254 AD
720= 1283 AD
574= 1429 AD
These dates prove a prehistoric occupation of South Island. We await the DNA testing of the bones.
