What started as a “normal day” salvaging wood in New Zealand eventually led to a large-scale excavation that uncovered more ...

The boat, known as a waka, was unearthed in the Chatham Islands. Researchers say it could be one of the most significant ...

Only after many years of learning how to voyage long distances, and to survive on the high islands and atolls they found in the sea, did the ocean-oriented Polynesian culture take on its classic form.