. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . 3,o. To cue cor- v Paper by DT HcuclsI. J J. . J ■ y J cu-per oy Haast.—Marts and Moa Hunters. 105 remind you that the Maoris went not only eel-fishing, but also rat and woodhen catching. If I am allowed to offer a simile, I would compare the rinding of polishedand unpolished stone implements together, with finding some coins of themiddle ages near some stone implements and bones of the giant elk in a boggydeposit on the banks of a small gully in Ireland, and we should conclude there-from that they must all have been co-
. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . 3,o. To cue cor- v Paper by DT HcuclsI. J J. . J ■ y J cu-per oy Haast.—Marts and Moa Hunters. 105 remind you that the Maoris went not only eel-fishing, but also rat and woodhen catching. If I am allowed to offer a simile, I would compare the rinding of polishedand unpolished stone implements together, with finding some coins of themiddle ages near some stone implements and bones of the giant elk in a boggydeposit on the banks of a small gully in Ireland, and we should conclude there-from that they must all have been co-temporaneous, because after the extinctionof the giant elk no other means of sustenance could be procured near such alocality. However, even supposing that really polished stone implements had beenmixed up with the chipped flint Instruments, this would merely prove that ofa people possessing a very low standard of civilization, the generality usedonly very rough and primitive stone implements, but numbered a fewfavoured persons amongst its members, who were already in possession of f
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