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COVER PHOTO : Ruamahanga Skull [Were Europeans living in New Zealand before Cook’s arrival? It seems implausible, but a skull exposed after flooding in the Ruamahanga River demands a re-examination of our earliest history];
COVER HEADLINE : EUROPEANS BEFORE TASMAN? - Unravelling our greatest forensic mystery;
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; LETTERS; TRUST; VIEWFINDER [Kim Westerskov]; GeoNEWS [Weta, Gannet, Waste]; ARTEFACT [Bug Collection]; WEEKEND TRAMPS [Mt Owen]; WEATHER [Benjamin Franklin]; PROFILE [Kat Bolstad - Squid Woman]; THE MIND [Memory]; BOOKS [Zealandia, Survive, Baxter]; FLASHBACK [Chimp Tea Party]; LONGVIEW [Albatross Point]; IN THE FIELD [Rod Morris]; PARTING SHOT [Cricket Geography];
CONTENTS - Features :
SKULL [Last year a Europeans skull turned up in the Ruamahunga River. Around 296 years old, the skull pre-dates any knowledge of Europeans in New Zealand];
KAKARIKI [Our parakeets evolved in the tropics and migrated en masse to New Zealand 500,000 years ago, occupying habitats as far south as the subantarctic];
HOKIANGA [The far-north harbour of Hokianga remains a community largely immune to the tribulations of modernity];
SPIRIT OF NEW ZEALAND [Each year the Spirit of New Zealand takes more than 1000 young New Zealanders on the adventure of a lifetime];
SECRET LIFE OF SLIME [A world of tiny animals, fractions of millimetres in size, exists in slime within our freshwater ecosystems and household plumbing];