{"id":157593,"date":"2026-09-18T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157593"},"modified":"2026-09-18T06:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:00:35","slug":"could-chinese-explorers-have-settled-new-zealand-before-the-maori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157593","title":{"rendered":"Could Chinese explorers have settled New Zealand before the Maori?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor generations, the narrative of New Zealand\u2019s human settlement has held that Polynesian voyagers \u2013 the ancestors of the Maori \u2013 arrived and settled the islands in the 13th century, followed by European explorers in the 17th century.<br \/>\nThis timeline underpins New Zealand\u2019s history and its political model. The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 between the British Crown and about 540 Maori chiefs, served as New Zealand\u2019s founding document, paving the way for Britain to claim sovereignty and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3367968\/could-chinese-explorers-have-settled-new-zealand-maori?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor generations, the narrative of New Zealand\u2019s human settlement has held that Polynesian voyagers \u2013 the ancestors of the Maori \u2013 arrived and settled&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157593"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}