Author : Atholl Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543965
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (439 download)
Book Synopsis Prodigious Birds by : Atholl Anderson
Download or read book Prodigious Birds written by Atholl Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prodigious Birds brings together the entire field of moa-related research, some 150 years of enquiry. The moa was a large flightless bird, hunted into extinction by the Maori tribes of New Zealand before the arrival of Europeans. Atholl Anderson brings an historical perspective to the development of moa research and its formative debates, analytical methods and results, reviewing evidence from palaeontology, biology, archaeology, ethnography and history.