Foreword / Hugh Kawharu -- Preface / Douglas G. Sutton -- 1. Changes over Time - Recent Advances in Dating Human Colonisation of the Pacific Basin Area / Roger C. Green -- 2. Experimental Voyaging and Maori Settlement / Ben Finney -- 3. The Likelihood of Multiple Settlement in Eastern Polynesia - A Stochastic Model / R. Garry Law -- 4. Does Maori have a Closest Relative? / Bruce Biggs -- 5. Maori Dialectology and the Settlement of New Zealand / Ray Harlow -- 6. Moriori and Maori: The Linguistic Evidence / Ross Clark -- 7. An Ecological Approach to the Polynesian Settlement of New Zealand / M. S. McGlone, A. J. Anderson and R. N. Holdaway -- 8. Late Holocene Histories of Climate, Geomorphology and Vegetation, and their Effects on the First New Zealand / Patrick J. Grant -- 9. Coastal Stratigraphic Evidence for Human Settlement / Bruce G. McFadgen -- 10. The Eastern Polynesian Origins of the New Zealand Archaic / Janet Davidson
11. The Cook Islands-New Zealand Connection / Richard Walter -- 12. Biological Affinity between Southern Cook Islanders and New Zealand Maori: Implications for the Settlement of New Zealand / Kazumichi Katayama -- 13. Conclusion: Origins / Douglas G. Sutton
